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| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Université Paris-Dauphine University of Oxford Paris Descartes University ENSAE |
| Thesis | Étude des propriétés asymptotiques des estimateurs de Bayes (1997) |
| Paul Deheuvels and Christian Robert | |
Judith Rousseau is a Bayesian statistician who studies frequentist properties of Bayesian methods.[1] She is a professor of statistics at Université Paris-Dauphine. She was previously a professor at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford,[2] and a professor at ENSAE Paris. She a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[3] and a Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.[4]
Education and career
[edit]Rousseau studied statistics and economics at ENSAE ParisTech, starting in pure mathematics but changing fields after taking a statistics class "because of all the interactions it has with other fields".[1] She completed a doctorate in 1997 at Pierre and Marie Curie University. Her dissertation, Asymptotic properties of Bayes estimators, was supervised by Christian Robert.[2][5]
She taught at Paris Descartes University from 1998 to 2004, Paris-Dauphine University beginning in 2004, and (while on leave from Paris-Dauphine) at ENSAE from 2009 to 2014.[2] She became Professor of Statistics at Oxford in 2017[6], then returned to Paris-Dauphine in 2023.
Recognition
[edit]In 2015 Rousseau won the inaugural Ethel Newbold Prize of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability. The award recognizes a "recipient of any gender who is an outstanding statistical scientist for a body of work that represents excellence in research in mathematical statistics". The body of work for which Rousseau was recognized includes her work on infinite-dimensional variants of the Bernstein–von Mises theorem.[1]
In 2019, she was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advance Grant for her project "General theory for Big Bayes".
As of 2026, she is president-elect of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 ""I like the Bayesian approach because I find it natural and it has this kind of internal coherence that makes it very appealing": An interview with Judith Rousseau", Statistics Views, John Wiley & Sons, 30 August 2016, archived from the original on 2018-02-09, retrieved 2018-02-08
- 1 2 3 Professor Judith Rousseau, Jesus College, Oxford, retrieved 2018-02-08
- ↑ Honored IMS Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, archived from the original on 2014-03-02, retrieved 2018-02-08
- ↑ ISBA Fellows, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, retrieved 2018-02-08
- ↑ Judith Rousseau at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Appointments", Oxford University Gazette, 5160, 23 February 2017, archived from the original on 26 March 2018, retrieved 9 February 2018
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- Living people
- French statisticians
- Women statisticians
- Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni
- Academic staff of Paris Descartes University
- Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford
- Bayesian statisticians
- Fellows of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
- Academic staff of Paris Dauphine University