Christine Anderson-Cook

Canadian statistician

Christine Michaela Anderson-Cook (born 1966)[1] is a U.S. and Canadian statistician known for her work on the design of experiments, response surface methodology, reliability analysis in quality engineering, multiple objective optimization and decision-making, and the applications of statistics in nuclear forensics.[2] She has published over 200 research articles in statistical, engineering and interdisciplinary journals. She also written on misunderstandings caused by "hidden jargon": technical terms in statistics that are difficult to distinguish from colloquial English.[3]

Anderson-Cook is a project leader in the US National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center, a research scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and a former chair of the American Statistical Association Section of Quality and Productivity and of the American Society for Quality Statistics Division.

Christine M. Anderson-Cook, Statistician and Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory

## Education and career[edit]

Anderson-Cook did her undergraduate studies at Western University and the University of Waterloo, earning a bachelor's degree in education from Western University and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Waterloo in 1989. She moved to the University of Toronto for a master's degree in statistics in 1990, and returned to Waterloo for her Ph.D., which she completed in 1994.[2] Her dissertation, Location and Dispersion Analysis for Factorial Experiments with Directional Data, was supervised by C. F. Jeff Wu.[4]

She was an assistant professor of statistics and actuarial science at Western University and then, beginning in 1996, an associate professor of statistics at Virginia Tech, before moving to Los Alamos in 2004.[5][6] She chaired the American Statistical Association Section of Quality and Productivity in 2006, and the American Society for Quality Statistics Division in 2010.[6]

## Book[edit]

Anderson-Cook is a co-author of the 3rd and 4th editions of the book Response Surface Methodology: Process and Product Optimization Using Designed Experiments (with Raymond H. Myers and Douglas C. Montgomery, Wiley, 2009 and 2016).[7]

## Recognition[edit]

Anderson-Cook became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2006,[2] and a Fellow of the American Society for Quality in 2011 "for research in quality in the areas of design of experiments and reliability, for interdisciplinary collaboration and training of statistical thinking and quality ideas, and for dedicated service to the growth and practice of the quality profession".[8] The American Society for Quality gave Anderson-Cook their William G. Hunter Award in 2012,[9] and their Shewhart Medal "for exemplary leadership, service, training, research, and applications in solving complex problems through statistical thinking and statistical engineering" in 2018.[2] She won the Don Owen award of the San Antonio Chapter of the American Statistical Association in 2019.[10] She became the first female recipient of the George Box Medal in 2021. [11] She was also the winner of the Gerald J. Hahn Q&P Achievement Award in 2021. [12]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2020-01-22
2. ^ a b c d "Christine Michaela Anderson-Cook", Profile Pages, Los Alamos National Laboratory, retrieved 2020-01-22
3. ^ Lombrozo, Tania (June 12, 2017), "The dangers of hidden jargon in communicating science", Cosmos & Culture, NPR
4. ^ Christine Anderson-Cook at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. ^ "Christine Anderson-Cook", Author profile, ASQ Statistics Division, retrieved 2020-01-22
6. ^ a b "Appendix F: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members", Review of Department of Defense Test Protocols for Combat Helmets, National Academies Press, March 31, 2014, retrieved 2020-01-22
7. ^ Reviews of Response Surface Methodology:
* Lucas, J. M. (April 2010), Journal of Quality Technology, 42 (2): 228–230, doi:10.1080/00224065.2010.11917819, S2CID 126031993`{{citation}}`: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
* Jensen, Willis A. (April 2017), Journal of Quality Technology, 49 (2): 186–187, doi:10.1080/00224065.2017.11917988, S2CID 125718887`{{citation}}`: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
8. ^ "LANL's Anderson-Cook honored", Los Alamos Monitor, January 17, 2012[permanent dead link]
9. ^ "William G. Hunter Award 2012: Christine Anderson-Cook", The Life and Legacy of William G. Hunter, retrieved 2020-01-22
10. ^ Vitanza, Shelly (April 3, 2019), Statisticians from across the State of Texas to attend conference at Lamar University, Lamar University, retrieved 2020-01-22
11. ^ Recipients of the George Box Medal, European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, retrieved 2022-02-23
12. ^ Gerald J. Hahn Q&P Achievement Award, ASA Quality and Productivity Section, retrieved 2022-02-23

## External links[edit]

* "Christine AndersonCook", People profiles, University of Waterloo Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, 2015-07-28

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