Dominique Haughton

Dominique Marie-Annick Haughton is a French statistician whose research interests include business analytics, standards of living, and applications of statistics to music. She is a professor of mathematical sciences at Bentley University.[1] She is also an associated researcher with the research center on Statistique, Analyse et Modélisation Multidisciplinaire at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.[2]

Education and career

After studying for the baccalauréat at the Lycée Pierre de la Ramée in Saint-Quentin, in Northern France, and continued study at the Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève, Haughton entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1975, where she earned a master's degree in mathematics in 1976, a licenciate in English in 1977, and a Diplôme d'études approfondies in mathematics in 1977. After a year at Harvard University as a Sachs scholar, she entered the Ph.D. program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1983.[2] Her dissertation, On the Choice of a Model to Fit Data from an Exponential Family, was supervised by Richard M. Dudley.[3]

After working as an assistant professor at Swarthmore College, Temple University, and the University of Lowell, she joined the Bentley University faculty in 1991.[2]

Books

Haughton is the coauthor, with Mark-David McLaughlin, Kevin Mentzer, and Changan Zhang, of the book Movie Analytics: A Hollywood Introduction to Big Data (Springer, 2015).[4] The is also the coauthor, with Jonathan Haughton, of Living Standards Analytics: Development through the Lens of Household Survey Data (Springer, 2011).[5]

Recognition

Haughton was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2011 "for outstanding collaborative research, outreach, and training in business analytics; for analysis of international living standards data; and for service to the profession".[6]

gollark: I go for directly running stuff. At some point I investigated elegantly™ having all my stuff dockerized and with docker compose files/config in a repository, but gave up on this.
gollark: This is not at all going to go horribly wrong at some point.
gollark: My entire storage setup is the now-probably-11-years-or-so-old 1TB disk in my server, various random external ones I do backups to, and the tiny SSD in my laptop.
gollark: Aren't the big ones SMR or something?
gollark: Wondrous.

References
  1. Dominique Haughton, Bentley University, retrieved 2020-04-10
  2. Curriculum vitae (PDF), September 2018, retrieved 2020-04-10
  3. Dominique Haughton at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Reviews of Movie Analytics:
  5. Review of Living Standards Analytics:
    • Hand, David J. (August 2013), International Statistical Review, 81 (2): 331–332, doi:10.1111/insr.12020_23, JSTOR 43298893CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. ASA Fellow award citation, retrieved 2020-04-10
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