Nicole Lazar
Nicole Alana Lazar (born December 14, 1966, in Washington, D.C.) is a statistician who holds triple citizenship as an American, Canadian, and Israeli.[2] Her research interests include empirical likelihood, functional neuroimaging, model selection and the history and sociology of statistics.[3] Lazar graduated magnum cum laude from Tel Aviv University in 1988.[5] She is the author of a book, The Statistical Analysis of Functional MRI Data (Springer, 2008).[6][7][8] One of her columns, "The Arts: Digitized, Quantified, and Analyzed", was selected for the anthology The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014.