Hélène Massam

Hélène Menexia Massam (died August 22, 2020[1]) was a statistician known for her research on the Wishart distribution and on graphical models.She stayed on at McGill for graduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1973 and completing her doctorate in 1977.[3] Her dissertation, Mathematical Programming with Cones, concerned numerical analysis and was supervised by Sanjo Zlobec.[4] She joined the York University faculty in 1984, and taught there for 35 years until her death.[1] In 2008, Massam was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics "for contributions to Wishart distributions and to graphical models".
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