#  Congratulations Professor Laird: awarded 2021 International Prize in Statistics 

 





March 24, 2021

 

 

The 2021 International Prize in Statistics, has been awarded to our colleague [Nan Laird](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nan-laird/), Professor of Biostatistics (Emerita) at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health for her work on powerful methods that have made possible the analysis of complex longitudinal studies.

<https://www.statprize.org/>  
  
Professor Laird received her Ph.D. from our Department in 1975, under the supervision of Arthur P. Dempster. An interview with Professor Laird, looking back at her career, is given in <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.03533.pdf> .  
  
The first International Prize was awarded in 2017 to D.R. Cox, the 2019 version went to Brad Efron.