Nancy Margaret Reid OC FRS FRSC[2] (born September 17, 1952[3]) is a Canadian theoretical statistician.

[11] As Chair of the “Long Range Plan Steering Committee for Mathematics and Statistics” Reid shaped Canadian national policy on mathematical sciences, leading to the creation of the virtual distributed Canadian Institute for Statistical Sciences (CANSSI) in 2012.

[6][7] Reid studies the foundations and properties of methods of statistical inference in order to discover how inferential statements can accurately and effectively summarize complex data sets.

[16] She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (awarded 2014, invested 2015) "for her leadership in the field of statistical inference, which has helped to facilitate sound public policy decision making.

[21] In 2015 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,[22] and in 2016 a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

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