{"id":6903,"date":"2022-10-11T14:08:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/?p=6903"},"modified":"2022-10-11T14:08:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T18:08:22","slug":"brenda-macgibbon-1944-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/2022\/10\/11\/brenda-macgibbon-1944-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Brenda MacGibbon (1944-2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with sadness that we learned of the passing of Brenda MacGibbon in Montreal on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>Brenda MacGibbon was a member of the CRM and its Statistics Laboratory. She studied mathematics at McGill University, obtaining her PhD in 1970. She was the first woman to chair the Statistical Sciences Grant Selection Committee of the NSERC and was a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Brenda MacGibbon was known for her work on minimax estimation under constrained parameters spaces, and held positions at the Department of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems at Concordia University and later at the D\u00e9partement de math\u00e9matiques of Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<p>Obituary in the <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.remembering.ca\/obituary\/kathryn-macgibbon-1086424737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montreal Gazette<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with sadness that we learned of the passing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/2022\/10\/11\/brenda-macgibbon-1944-2022\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6907,"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions\/6907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}