Merlise Aycock Clyde is an American statistician known for her work in model averaging for Bayesian statistics.
[1] She was president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) in 2013,[2] and chair of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the American Statistical Association for 2018.
[3] Clyde graduated from Oregon State University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science in Forestry.
[1] Her dissertation, supervised by Kathryn Chaloner, was Bayesian Optimal Designs for Approximate Normality[4], which received the Savage Award for outstanding dissertation in Bayesian econometrics and statistics in 1994.
[5] Clyde is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis,[1] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.