Nan Laird

Career and research Laird is well known for many seminal papers in biostatistics applications and methods, including the expectation–maximization algorithm.

Selected publications

Laird NM and Ware, JH. (1982) "Random effects models for longitudinal data: an overview of recent results". Biometrics; 38:963-974.

Honors and awards Her honors include the third International Prize in Statistics in 2021, the 25th Annual Distinguished Statistician Lecture from the University of Connecticut, the American Statistical Association and Pfizer in 2016, the 25th Annual Lowell Reed Lecturer, from the American Public Health Association in 2011, the Samuel S. Wilks Award, from the American Statistical Association in 2011, the Myra Samuels Lecturer award from Purdue University in 2004, the Janet L. Norwood Award in 2003 from the American Statistical Association, the Florence Nightingale David Award in 2001 from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, and several other fellowships.

Laird is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, as well as the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. She is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.