Rebecca R. DerSimonian is an American statistician, known for her work with Nan Laird introducing the random-effects model for meta-analysis and, in their 1986 paper "Meta-analysis in clinical trials" applying meta-analysis to clinical trials.[1] She is a biostatistician in the National Institutes of Health.[2]

DerSimonian graduated in 1974 from Brandeis University,[3] and earned a Ph.D. in 1983 at Harvard University.[1] At the National Institutes of Health, she has also been active in supporting women researchers, as a member of its Women Scientist Advisors Committee and as an organizer of communications workshops for women.[4]

In 1988, as an assistant professor at Yale University, and again in 1993–1994, as a researcher with the National Institutes of Health, she visited Armenia for four months each as a Fulbright Scholar.[5] In 2017 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 30 Year Celebration of Dersimonian/Laird Paper, Harvard Department of Biostatistics, June 6, 2016, retrieved 2020-06-04
  2. 1 2 ASA Bestows Prestigious Fellow Designation Upon 62 Statisticians, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2020-06-04
  3. ↑ "Class Notes: '74", Brandeis Review, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 57, Winter 1993
  4. ↑ Anderson, Linda F. (March–April 1996), "Talking the Talk, Communication Skills for Women Scientists", NIH Catalyst, vol. 4, no. 2, retrieved 2020-06-04
  5. ↑ Fulbright Scholars directory 1987–1988 (PDF), p. 43, retrieved 2020-06-04; Fulbright Scholars directory 1993–1994 (PDF), p. 50, retrieved 2020-06-04
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