Ethel Marian Scott, OBE, FRSE (born July 1956)[1] is a Scottish statistician, author and academic, specialising in environmental statistics and statistical modelling. She is Professor of Environmental Statistics at the University of Glasgow.[2][3] She is additionally vice-president (International) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,[4][5] and a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council.[6]
Marian Scott | |
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| Born | Ethel Marian Scott 1956 (age 67–68) Scotland |
| Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
| Known for | environmental statistics |
| Awards | FRSE (2005) OBE (2009) Barnett Award (2019) |
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| Fields | environmental statistics |
| Doctoral advisor | Murdoch Baxter and Tom Aitchison |
Biography
editScott has a degree in statistics and a PhD from the University of Glasgow. Her thesis was on the sources of error in radiocarbon dating, and was supervised by Murdoch Baxter and Tom Aitchison.[7]
Her research interests include model uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, modelling how pollutants disperse in the environment, radiocarbon dating and assessing animal welfare.
In 2005, Scott was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), Scotland's national academy of science and letters.[8] In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to social science.[9]
Professor Scott was awarded the Royal Statistical Society Barnett Award in 2019[10] for "her outstanding, pioneering research into the application of innovative statistical techniques to environmental issues."
Selected works
edit- Scott, E. Marian, ed. (2003). Modelling radioactivity in the environment. Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 9780080436630.
- Scott, E. Marian, ed. (2004). Impact of the environment on human migration in Eurasia: proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Impact of the Environment on Human Migration in Eurasia, St. Petersburg, Russia, 15–18 November 2003. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishing. ISBN 9781402026546.
- Bowman, Adrian W.; Giannitrapani, Marco; Marian Scott, E. (December 2009). "Spatiotemporal smoothing and sulphur dioxide trends over Europe". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics). 58 (5): 737–752. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9876.2009.00671.x.
- Ventrucci, M.; Scott, E. M.; Cocchi, D. (24 June 2010). "Multiple testing on standardized mortality ratios: a Bayesian hierarchical model for FDR estimation". Biostatistics. 12 (1): 51–67. doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxq040. PMID 20577014.
- Lee, Duncan; Ferguson, Claire; Scott, E. Marian (January 2011). "Constructing representative air quality indicators with measures of uncertainty". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society). 174 (1): 109–126. doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00658.x. S2CID 120171047.
- Finazzi, Francesco; Scott, E. Marian; Fassò, Alessandro (March 2013). "A model-based framework for air quality indices and population risk evaluation, with an application to the analysis of Scottish air quality data". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics). 62 (2): 287–308. doi:10.1111/rssc.12001. PMC 3600869. PMID 23518479.
- Scott, E. Marian (2018). "The role of Statistics in the era of big data: crucial, critical and under-valued" (PDF). Statistics and Probability Letters. 136: 20–24. doi:10.1016/j.spl.2018.02.050. PDF
References
edit- ^ "Ethel Marian SCOTT". Companies House. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "Professor Marian Scott OBE, FRSE, FISI, CStats". Scottish Science. Scottish Science Advisory Council. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "Prof E Marian Scott". School of Mathematics & Statistics. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "Professor Marian Scott: Teaming up with China in the appliance of science can only benefit Scotland". The Scotsman. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "Council & Committees". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 26 July 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "Marian Scott". The University of Glasgow Story. University of Glasgow. 17 March 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "index". www.stats.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- ^ "Fellows - Professor Ethel Marian Scott OBE FRSE". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 19 May 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "No. 59090". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 2009. p. 12.
- ^ "The Barnett Award". The Royal Statistical Society. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.