Nancy Flournoy

Nancy Flournoy
Nancy Flournoy in 2023
Born (1947-05-04) May 4, 1947
SpouseLeonard B. Hearne
Parent(s)Carr Irvine Flournoy and Elizbeth Blincoe Flournoy
Awards
  • Distinguished Service Award from the National Institute for Statistical Sciences
  • Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, the World Academy of Art and Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Elizabeth Scott and Florence Nightingale David Awards from the Committee of Presents of Statistical Societies
  • Founders Award from the American Statistical Association
  • Curators' Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri
Academic background
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Alma materUniversity of Washington
ThesisThe Failure-Censoring Bichain and the Relative Efficiency of Selected Partial Likelihoods in the Presence of Coprocesses (1982)
Doctoral advisorLloyd Delbert Fisher, Jr.
Other advisorOlive Jean Dunn, Wilfrid Dixon
Academic work
DisciplineStatistics
Sub-disciplineDesign of experiments,
Adaptive clinical trials
InstitutionsNational Science Foundation,
American University,
University of Missouri
Doctoral studentsMisrak Gezmu

Nancy Flournoy (born May 4, 1947) is an American statistician. Her research in statistics concerns the design of experiments, and particularly the design of adaptive clinical trials; she is also known for her work on applications of statistics to bone marrow transplantation, and in particular on the graft-versus-tumor effect. She is Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Missouri.

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