标题： 与南·莱尔德的对话 显示英文标题

标题： A Conversation with Nan Laird

摘要： 纳米·麦肯齐·莱尔德是哈佛大学T.H.陈公共卫生学院生物统计学的哈维·V·芬伯格教授。她在纵向数据分析、缺失数据和元分析的统计方法方面做出了基础性贡献。此外，她因在统计遗传学和精神病流行病学的统计方法方面的研究而广为人知。她1977年与邓克斯特和鲁宾合著的关于期望最大化算法的论文是科学领域被引用次数最多的前100篇论文之一[《自然》524（2014）550-553]。她在医疗实践错误方面的应用研究在医疗过失领域被广泛引用。纳米于1943年出生于佛罗里达州盖恩斯维尔。不久之后，她的父母安格斯·麦肯齐·莱尔德和迈拉·阿德莉亚·多伊尔带着纳米和她的妹妹维多利亚·梅尔搬到了佛罗里达州塔拉哈西。纳米于1961年进入莱斯大学读大学，后来转学到佐治亚大学，在那里于1969年获得统计学学士学位，并入选Phi Beta Kappa学会。毕业后，纳米在麻省理工学院德普勒实验室工作，参与阿波罗登月计划中的卡尔曼滤波研究。她于1971年进入哈佛大学统计系，于1975年获得博士学位。她博士毕业之后加入哈佛大学公共卫生学院任教，2015年退休后仍担任研究员。这次访谈于2014年7月在马萨诸塞州波士顿进行。纳米的完整简历链接可在\surlwww .hsph.harvard.edu/nan-laird/ 找到。 显示英文摘要

摘要： Nan McKenzie Laird is the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She has made fundamental contributions to statistical methods for longitudinal data analysis, missing data and meta-analysis. In addition, she is widely known for her work in statistical genetics and in statistical methods for psychiatric epidemiology. Her 1977 paper with Dempster and Rubin on the EM algorithm is among the top 100 most highly cited papers in science [Nature 524 (2014) 550-553]. Her applied work on medical practice errors is widely cited among the medical malpractice community. Nan was born in Gainesville, Florida, in 1943. Shortly thereafter, her parents Angus McKenzie Laird and Myra Adelia Doyle, moved to Tallahassee, Florida, with Nan and her sister Victoria Mell. Nan started college at Rice University in 1961, but then transferred to the University of Georgia where she received a B.S. in Statistics in 1969 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation Nan worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Draper Laboratories where she worked on Kalman filtering for the Apollo Man to the Moon Program. She enrolled in the Statistics Department at Harvard University in 1971 and received her Ph.D. in 1975. She joined the faculty of Harvard School of Public Health upon receiving her Ph.D., and remains there as research professor, after her retirement in 2015. The interview was conducted in Boston, Massachusetts, in July 2014. A link to Nan's full CV can be found at \surlwww.hsph.harvard.edu/nan-laird/.