Brenda MacGibbon
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Brenda MacGibbon | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 31, 1944 |
| Died | October 7, 2022 (aged 78) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Education | |
| Spouse | John Taylor |
| Children | 3 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Thesis | K-Analytic Spaces and Countable Operations in Topology (1970) |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald A. Dawson |
Kathryn Brenda MacGibbon-Taylor (July 31, 1944 – October 7, 2022) was a Canadian mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist. She was a professor of mathematics at the Université du Québec à Montréal[1] and was affiliated with the Group for Research in Decision Analysis.[2]
MacGibbon began her career in pure mathematics, at McGill University. She earned a master's degree there in 1966, working with Michael Herschorn on differential equations,[3] and completed a Ph.D. in 1970, with a dissertation on topology supervised by Donald A. Dawson.[4][5]
As well as McGill and the Université du Québec à Montréal, she has also been affiliated with the Department of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems at Concordia University in Montreal, where she was hired in 1986.[6] By 1993 she had moved to the Université du Québec à Montréal.[4]
Research
Although MacGibbon's research has covered a wide range of topics in statistics,[4] including applications of statistics in the study of premenstrual syndrome,[7] and the use of smart shoes to monitor the rehabilitation of patients with hip fractures,[8] she was particularly known for her work in theoretical statistics on minimax estimators with constrained parameters.[4]
