Amarjot Kaur

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Amarjot Kaur
NationalityIndian
Alma materPanjab University
OccupationStatistician
EmployerMerck Research Laboratories

Amarjot Kaur is an Indian statistician who in 2016 became the president of the International Indian Statistical Association. She works for Merck Research Laboratories,[1] as Executive Director of Clinical Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences.[2] She is also the 2017 treasurer of the American Statistical Association,[3] and in 2013 she chaired the American Statistical Association Community of Applied Statisticians.[4]

Before joining Merck, Kaur earned her Ph.D. at Panjab University in Chandigarh, India,[5] where she also worked as a lecturer.[2] At Panjab, in the 1990s, Kaur published research in mathematical statistics on tests for stochastic dominance.[T2O] She joined Merck after postdoctoral research at Pennsylvania State University.[2] At Merck, she became the chief statistician on the Multinational Etoricoxib and Diclofenac Arthritis Long-term (MEDAL) programme, a large international study of treatments for arthritis.[CVO]

In 2014, she was elected to be a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[6]

Selected publications

T2O.
Kaur, Amarjot; Rao, B. L. S. Prakasa; Singh, Harshinder (December 1994), "Testing for second-order stochastic dominance of two distributions", Econometric Theory, 10 (5): 849–866, doi:10.1017/S0266466600008884, JSTOR 3532856, S2CID 120516536
CVO.
Cannon, Christopher P; Curtis, Sean P; FitzGerald, Garret A; Krum, Henry; Kaur, Amarjot; Bolognese, James A; Reicin, Alise S; Bombardier, Claire; Weinblatt, Michael E; Van Der Heijde, Désirée; et al. (MEDAL programme steering committee) (2006), "Cardiovascular outcomes with etoricoxib and diclofenac in patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis in the Multinational Etoricoxib and Diclofenac Arthritis Long-term (MEDAL) programme: a randomised comparison", The Lancet, 368 (9549): 1771–1781, doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69666-9, PMID 17113426, S2CID 18464206

References

  1. ^ "Message from Amarjot Kaur, President of IISA" (PDF), IISA Newsletter, p. 2, Spring 2016
  2. ^ a b c "The World of Applied Statistics: Where Do YOU Fit In?", StatTrak, American Statistical Association, retrieved 22 November 2017
  3. ^ "Highlights of the July Board of Directors Meeting", Amstat News, American Statistical Association, 1 October 2017, retrieved 22 November 2017
  4. ^ History: Community of Applied Statisticians, American Statistical Association, retrieved 22 November 2017
  5. ^ "Contributing editor biography" (PDF), Amstat News, vol. 384, American Statistical Association, p. 2, June 2009, archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2017
  6. ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 1 December 2017, retrieved 14 November 2017