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词条 Rose Baker
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  1. Education and career

  2. Recognition

  3. References

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Rose Dawn Baker is a British physicist, mathematician, and statistician. She is a professor emeritus of applied statistics in the Salford Business School at the University of Salford.{{r|sal}}

Education and career

Baker read physics at the University of Cambridge, earned a master's degree there in 1968, and completed her Ph.D. in 1972.{{r|sal}}

Her dissertation concerned bubble chambers.{{r|rg}}

After a year in India as a lecturer in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, she returned to England as a researcher at the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory in Chilton, Oxfordshire, where she worked from 1973 to 1977.{{r|rg}}

At that time, as she writes, "funds began drying up in big physics",{{r|rg}} so she moved to the University of Salford, where she worked in computing services from 1977 to 1990. In 1990, she became a lecturer in the department of mathematics at Salford, and in 1998 she moved to statistics as a reader. She was given a personal chair in 2001,{{r|sal}} and retired in 2013.{{r|ret}}

Recognition

Baker is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.{{r|sal}}

She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.{{r|isimem}}

She has won the Catherine Richards Prize of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications twice, in 2002 for a paper on paradoxes in probability theory and in 2010

for her work providing a formula for the health effects of obesity, as a function of body mass index.{{r|crp}}

References

1. ^{{citation|url=https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/who-is-isi/members/indivual|title=Individual members|publisher=International Statistical Institute|accessdate=2017-11-23}}
2. ^{{citation|url=http://www.salford.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/789647/2013-12-11.pdf|page=7|contribution=Report of professorial promotions and appointments advisory group|date=11 December 2013|publisher=University of Salford Senate|title=Minutes of the meeting held on 11 December 2013}}
3. ^{{citation|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rose_Baker|title=Rose Dawn Baker|publisher=ResearchGate|accessdate=2017-11-23}}
4. ^{{citation|url=http://www.salford.ac.uk/business-school/business-academics/rose-baker|title=Professor Rose Baker, Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics|publisher=Salford Business School|accessdate=2017-11-23}}
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