Professor
      Elizabeth Alison Thompson
University of Washington
      Statistician; Educator
      Area
                                Biological Sciences
                            Specialty
                                Evolution and Ecology
                            Elected
                                    1998
                    Professor of Statistics, University of Washington. Research is in the area of statistical genetics. Has developed likelihood methods for the analysis of data observed on related individuals, including members of large and complex pedigrees. Applications range from linkage and segregation analysis for the analysis of complex genetic traits in human populations to estimation of relationship and maintenance of genetic variation in endangered species. Recent methods involve Markov chain Monte Carlo, and other modern latent-variable approaches in stochastic modeling and analysis.
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