An award-winning researcher from the University of Waterloo whose work in the field of statistics has helped inform public policy for more than two decades was named an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Dr. Mary Thompson, Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Mathematics at Waterloo, joins 60 other Canadians included in the list of honourees. The recipients were just announced by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Louise Arbour, Governor General of Canada.
She joined the University in the fall of 1969, where she taught probability and statistics in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. An expert in survey methodology and longitudinal studies, Thompson’s expertise informs the gathering and analysis of complex survey data.
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