Kaye Basford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Kaye Basford

Australian biometrician

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1952

Place of Birth: Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

Profession: statistician, biometrician

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Kaye Basford

  • Kaye Enid Basford (born 10 August 1952) is an Australian statistician and biometrician who applies statistical methods to plant genetics.
  • She is a professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Queensland, and head of the school.
  • She was president of the Statistical Society of Australia from 2005 to 2007, and president of the International Biometric Society from 2010 to 2011.
  • Before moving to Biomedical Sciences, she was the head of the School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland from 2001 to 2010.Basford earned her Ph.D.
  • in 1985 from the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Queensland.
  • Her dissertation, jointly supervised by Geoffrey McLachlan and Don Byth, was Cluster Analysis via Normal Mixture Models.With McLachlan, Basford is the author of a book on mixture models, Mixture Models: Inference and Applications to Clustering (Marcel Dekker, 1988).
  • With John Tukey she wrote Graphical Analysis of Multiresponse Data: Illustrated with a Plant Breeding Trial (Chapman & Hall / CRC, 1999.In 1998, the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology awarded Basford the Australian Medal for Agricultural Science. She was elected in 2006 as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (AATSE) and is vice-president of the AATSE. In 2010 she became a life member of the Statistical Society of Australia. She is also a fellow of the Institute of Statisticians and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

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