Amy H. Herring
Amy H. Herring is an American biostatistician interested in longitudinal data and reproductive health. Formerly the Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor of Children's Environmental Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she is now a professor in the Department of Statistical Science and research professor in the Global Health Institute of Duke University.[1]
Herring graduated summa cum laude from the University of Mississippi in 1995, with a double major in English and mathematics.[1] She completed an Sc.D in biostatistics at Harvard University in 200; her dissertation, supervised by Joseph Ibrahim, was Missing Covariants in Survival Analysis.[1][2] She joined the North Carolina faculty in 2000, where she became a fellow of the Carolina Population Center in 2006 and Angle Distinguished Professor in 2015. She moved to Duke in 2017.[1]
In 2013, a study led my Herring and published in the British Medical Journal reported that roughly one in every 200 women in the US had given birth naturally but claimed to be virgins at the time of birth. Herring suggested that the result might be a combination of data collection errors and respondents being unwilling to admit to having intercourse.[3][4]
In 2010, Herring was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5] She won the Gertrude M. Cox Award for outstanding contributions to applied statistics in 2012.[6] In the same year, the American Public Health Association gave her their Mortimer Spiegelman Award.[7]
References
- ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae, September 2017, retrieved 2017-11-02
- ^ Amy H. Herring at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ James, Susan Donaldson (December 18, 2013), "'Strange Nativities': Scientists Find 45 'Virgin Births' (and Some Virgin Fathers)", ABC News
- ^ Boesveld, Sarah (December 17, 2013), "One in two hundred US women in study report having virgin births — but researchers think it's no miracle", National Post
- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-11-02
- ^ Herring honored with statistics award, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, June 5, 2012, retrieved 2017-11-02
- ^ Herring presented with APHA’s distinguished Spiegelman Award, October 31, 2012, retrieved 2017-11-02
External links
- Home page
- Amy H. Herring publications indexed by Google Scholar
