Valerie Isham

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Valerie S. Isham
Born1947 (age 78–79)
Alma materImperial College London
AwardsGuy Medal (Bronze, 1990)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Doctoral advisorDavid Cox

Valerie Susan Isham (born 1947) is a British applied probabilist and former President of the Royal Statistical Society. Isham's research interests in include point processes, spatial processes, spatio-temporal processes and population processes.

Education and career

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Isham went to Imperial College London (B.Sc., Ph.D.) where she was a student of statistician David Cox.[1] She has been a professor of probability and statistics at University College London since 1992.

Isham is the coauthor with Cox of the book Point Processes (Chapman & Hall, 1980).[2]

Recognition

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Isham was the president of the Royal Statistical Society for 2011–2012. She was awarded its Guy Medal in Bronze in 1990.[3][4] In 2018 she received the Forder Lectureship from the London Mathematical Society and the New Zealand Mathematical Society.

References

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  1. ^ Valerie Isham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Reviews of Point Processes: J. D. Biggins (1981), Math. Gaz., Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., JSTOR 3615757; D. J. Daley, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).; Fergus Daly (1991), JRSSA, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., JSTOR 2983051; Paul T. Holmes (1983), JASA, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., JSTOR 2288675; David Vere-Jones (1982), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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