Elizabeth Meckes

Elizabeth Meckes
Born
Elizabeth Samantha Meckes
Alma materCase Western Reserve University
Stanford University (PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsCase Western Reserve University
Thesis An Infinitesimal Version of Stein's Method of Exchangeable Pairs
Doctoral advisorPersi Diaconis

Elizabeth Samantha Meckes (1980–2020) was an American mathematician specializing in probability theory. Her research included work on Stein's method for bounding the distance between probability distributions and on random matrices. She was a professor of mathematics, applied mathematics, and statistics at Case Western Reserve University. She died in December 2020 after a brief battle with cancer.

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