Katherine Davies
Department of statistics
Canada
Biography
Katherine joined the Department of Statistics as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2008. Prior to coming to Winnipeg, she lived in Ontario. In June 2002 she completed an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and statistics from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Continuing her studies in McMaster, in June 2004 she completed a Master of Science degree in statistics under the supervision of Dr. N. Balakrishnan. Her project involved order statistics and progressive censoring. From McMaster, she moved to the University of Western Ontario. There she completed her Ph.D. thesis in June 2008. Her thesis investigated a spatial renewal process and was done under the supervision of Dr. W.J. Braun.
Research Interest
point processes, forest fire modelling, order statistics, censoring methodology, reliability
