Kaye Basford
Kaye Enid Basford AM (born 10 August 1952) is an Australian statistician and biometrician who applies statistical methods to plant genetics. She is a professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Queensland, and head of the school. She was president of the Statistical Society of Australia from 2005 to 2007, and president of the International Biometric Society from 2010 to 2011. Before moving to Biomedical Sciences, she was the head of the School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland from 2001 to 2010.[1]
Kaye Basford AM | |
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Born | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia | 10 August 1952
Title | Professor of Biometry |
Awards | Australian Medal for Agricultural Science |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Queensland |
Thesis | Cluster Analysis via Normal Mixture Models (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey McLachlan and Don Byth |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Statistics Biometrics |
Sub-discipline | Application of statistical methods to plant genetics |
Institutions | University of Queensland |
Basford earned her Ph.D. in 1985 from the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Queensland. Her dissertation, jointly supervised by Geoffrey McLachlan and Don Byth, was Cluster Analysis via Normal Mixture Models.[2]
With McLachlan, Basford is the author of a book on mixture models, Mixture Models: Inference and Applications to Clustering (Marcel Dekker, 1988).[3] With John Tukey she wrote Graphical Analysis of Multiresponse Data: Illustrated with a Plant Breeding Trial (Chapman & Hall / CRC, 1999.[4]
In 1998, the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology awarded Basford the Australian Medal for Agricultural Science.[1] She was elected in 2006 as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (AATSE) and is vice-president of the AATSE.[5] In 2010 she became a life member of the Statistical Society of Australia.[1] She is also a fellow of the Institute of Statisticians[1] and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[6]
References
- Professor Kaye Basford, University of Queensland School of Biomedical Sciences, retrieved 23 November 2017
- Basford, Kaye (1985), Cluster analysis via normal mixture models, Ph.D. thesis, University of Queensland Library, doi:10.14264/uql.2015.11
- Reviews of Mixture Models: Inference and Applications to Clustering:
- Lindsay, Bruce (March 1989), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 84 (405): 337–338, doi:10.2307/2289892, JSTOR 2289892CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Geary, D. N. (1989), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 152 (1): 126–127, doi:10.2307/2982840, JSTOR 2982840CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Hand, D. J. (1989), Applied Statistics, 38 (2): 384–385, doi:10.2307/2348072, JSTOR 2348072CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Reviews of Graphical Analysis of Multiresponse Data:
- Talbot, M. (June 2000), Biometrics, 56 (2): 649–650, JSTOR 2677019CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Cooper, Mark (July–August 2000), Crop Science, 40 (4): 1184, doi:10.2135/cropsci2000.0015brCS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Heckler, Charles E (February 2001), Technometrics, 43 (1): 97–98, doi:10.1198/tech.2001.s547, JSTOR 1270862CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Broadfoot, L. (June 2001), The Journal of Agricultural Science, 136 (4): 471–475, doi:10.1017/s002185960124893xCS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Professor Kaye Basford, University of Queensland Global Change Institute, retrieved 23 November 2017
- Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 23 November 2017