Brenda MacGibbon

Kathryn Brenda MacGibbon-Taylor is a Canadian mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist. She is retired as a professor of mathematics at the Université du Québec à Montréal,[1] where she retains a title as adjunct professor, affiliated with the Group for Research in Decision Analysis.[2]

Education and career

MacGibbon began her career in pure mathematics, at McGill University. She earned a master's degree there in 1966, working with Michael Herschorn on differential equations,[3] and completed a Ph.D. in 1970, with a dissertation on topology supervised by Donald A. Dawson.[4][5]

As well as McGill and the Université du Québec à Montréal, she has also been affiliated with the Department of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems at Concordia University in Montreal, where she was hired in 1986.[6] By 1993 she had moved to the Université du Québec à Montréal.[4]

Research

Although MacGibbon's research has covered a wide range of topics in statistics,[4] including applications of statistics in the study of premenstrual syndrome,[7] and the use of smart shoes to monitor the rehabilitation of patients with hip fractures,[8] she is particularly known for her work in theoretical statistics on minimax estimators with constrained parameters.[4]

Recognition

MacGibbon became the first woman to chair the Statistical Sciences Grant Selection Committee of the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, in 1993.[4] She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[9]

References
  1. "Professeurs retraités" [Retired professors], Faculté des sciences: Site administratif du département de mathématiques (in French), Université du Québec à Montréal, retrieved 2020-08-29
  2. Brenda MacGibbon, Associated member, GERAD, Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD), retrieved 2020-08-29
  3. MacGibbon, Brenda (1966), Oscillation theorems for ordinary differential equations, Master's thesis, McGill University
  4. Thompson, Mary E. (2014), "Reflections on women in statistics in Canada", in Lin, Xihong; Genest, Christian; Banks, David L.; Molenberghs, Geert; Scott, David W.; Wang, Jane-Ling (eds.), Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science, CRC Press, pp. 203–216, ISBN 9781482204988. See in particular p. 208.
  5. Brenda MacGibbon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. "At a glance" (PDF), The Thursday Report, Concordia University, p. 3, 27 November 1986, retrieved 2020-08-29
  7. Solomon, Heather (22 March 1990), "New statistical tool helps zero in on PMS" (PDF), The Thursday Report, Concordia University, p. 7, retrieved 2020-08-29
  8. Goldsobel, Gady (13 February 2017), ""Smart Soles" Help Patients Recover From A Broken Hip", Healthcanal
  9. Honored IMS Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, retrieved 2020-08-29
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