Diane Lambert

This article is about the statistician. For the fictional soap-opera character, see Diane Sugden. For the songwriter, see Every Road Leads Back to You.

Diane Marie Lambert is an American statistician known for her work on zero-inflated models, a method for extending Poisson regression to applications such as the statistics of manufacturing defects in which one can expect to observe a large number of zeros.^[1] A former Bell Labs Fellow, she is a research scientist for Google, where she lists her current research areas as "algorithms and theory, data mining and modeling, and economics and electronic commerce".^[2]

Education and career

Lambert earned her Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Rochester. Her dissertation, supervised by W. Jackson Hall, was P-Values: Asymptotics and Robustness.^[3] In the early part of her career, she worked as a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. As an assistant professor there, she did pioneering work on the confidentiality of statistical information.^[4] She earned tenure at Carnegie Mellon, but moved to Bell Labs in 1986. At Bell Labs, she became head of statistics, and a Bell Labs Fellow. She moved again to Google in 2005.^[5][6]

Recognition

Lambert became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1991.^[7] She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,^[8] was executive secretary of the institute from 1990 to 1993,^[9] and was one of the institute's Medallion Lecturers in 1995.^[10]

References

1. Lewis-Beck, Michael; Bryman, Alan E.; Liao, Tim Futing (2003), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Sage, p. 830, ISBN 9781452261454
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3. Diane Lambert at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. Behseta, Sam; Slavković, Aleksandra (November 2013), "Interview with Steve Fienberg", Chance, American Statistical Association, 26 (4): 18–29, doi:10.1080/09332480.2013.868752, S2CID 61142854, retrieved 2017-11-25
5. "Diane Lambert, Research Scientist, Google", Speaker biography for Computefest 2018, Harvard University, retrieved 2017-11-25
6. National Research Council Committee on the Analysis of Massive Data (2013), Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis, National Academies Press, p. 175, ISBN 9780309287814
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9. , Institute of Mathematical Statistics, archived from the original on 2012-02-08, retrieved 2017-11-25
10. , Institute of Mathematical Statistics, archived from the original on 2016-08-10, retrieved 2017-11-25