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| employer = [[Merck & Co|Merck Research Laboratories]]<br />
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'''Amarjot Kaur''' is an Indian statistician who in 2016 became the president of the International Indian Statistical Association. She works for [[Merck & Co|Merck Research Laboratories]],{{r|iisa}}<br />
as Executive Director of Clinical Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences.{{r|world}} She is also the 2017 treasurer of the [[American Statistical Association]],{{r|treasurer}} and in 2013 she chaired the American Statistical Association Community of Applied Statisticians.{{r|cas}}<br />
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Before joining Merck, Kaur earned her Ph.D. at [[Panjab University]] in [[Chandigarh]], India,{{r|an09}} where she also worked as a lecturer.{{r|world}} At Panjab, in the 1990s, Kaur published research in [[mathematical statistics]] on tests for [[stochastic dominance]].{{ran|T2O}}<br />
She joined Merck after postdoctoral research at [[Pennsylvania State University]].{{r|world}} At Merck, she became the chief statistician on the Multinational Etoricoxib and Diclofenac Arthritis Long-term (MEDAL) programme, a large international study of treatments for [[arthritis]].{{ran|CVO}}<br />
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In 2014, she was elected to be a [[Fellow of the American Statistical Association]].{{r|fasa}}<br />
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==Selected publications==<br />
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| last1 = Kaur | first1 = Amarjot<br />
| last2 = Rao | first2 = B. L. S. Prakasa<br />
| last3 = Singh | first3 = Harshinder<br />
| date = December 1994<br />
| issue = 5<br />
| journal = Econometric Theory<br />
| jstor = 3532856<br />
| pages = 849–866<br />
| title = Testing for second-order stochastic dominance of two distributions<br />
| volume = 10| doi = 10.1017/S0266466600008884<br />
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| last1 = Cannon | first1 = Christopher P<br />
| last2 = Curtis | first2 = Sean P<br />
| last3 = FitzGerald | first3 = Garret A<br />
| last4 = Krum | first4 = Henry<br />
| last5 = Kaur | first5 = Amarjot<br />
| last6 = Bolognese | first6 = James A<br />
| last7 = Reicin | first7 = Alise S<br />
| last8 = Bombardier | first8 = Claire<br />
| last9 = Weinblatt | first9 = Michael E<br />
| last10 = Van Der Heijde | first10 = Désirée<br />
| collaboration = MEDAL programme steering committee<br />
| doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69666-9<br />
| pmid = 17113426<br />
| issue = 9549<br />
| journal = The Lancet<br />
| pages = 1771–1781<br />
| title = Cardiovascular outcomes with etoricoxib and diclofenac in patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis in the Multinational Etoricoxib and Diclofenac Arthritis Long-term (MEDAL) programme: a randomised comparison<br />
| volume = 368<br />
| year = 2006| s2cid = 18464206<br />
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==References==<br />
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<ref name=an09>{{citation|title=Contributing editor biography|magazine=Amstat News|publisher=American Statistical Association|volume=384|date=June 2009|page=2|url=http://magazine.amstat.org/June09-Amstat-News.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170712204153/http://magazine.amstat.org/June09-Amstat-News.pdf|archive-date=July 12, 2017}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=cas>{{citation|url=http://community.amstat.org/cas/aboutus/history|title=History: Community of Applied Statisticians|publisher=American Statistical Association|accessdate=2017-11-22}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=fasa>{{citation|url=http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|title=ASA Fellows list|publisher=American Statistical Association|accessdate=2017-11-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201042456/https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|archive-date=2017-12-01|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=iisa>{{citation|url=http://www.intindstat.org/pdfs/IISASu2016.pdf|title=Message from Amarjot Kaur, President of IISA|page=2|magazine=IISA Newsletter|date=Spring 2016}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=treasurer>{{citation|url=http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2017/10/01/boardhighlights_july17/|title=Highlights of the July Board of Directors Meeting|date=October 1, 2017|magazine=Amstat News|publisher=American Statistical Association|accessdate=2017-11-22}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=world>{{citation|url=http://stattrak.amstat.org/2012/03/01/applied-statistics/|title=The World of Applied Statistics: Where Do YOU Fit In?|magazine=StatTrak|publisher=American Statistical Association|accessdate=2017-11-22}}</ref><br />
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