Amy H. Herring

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Amy H. Herring is an American biologist. She is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina .

Life and education

In 1995, Herring received a BA in English Mathematics from the University of Mississippi . In 2000 she received her ScD degree from Harvard University in Biostatistics. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Missing Covariates in Survival Analysis .

science

In 2013, an article of hers in the British Medical Journal caused a sensation when she presented a study in which 45 of around 7,800 American mothers surveyed said they became pregnant even though they had never had sex. The authors attribute the supposed virgin births to the mutation and cell division of half a percent of all women surveyed.

Individual evidence

  1. CV Amy H. Herring
  2. Christmas 2013: Strange Nativities. Like a virgin (mother): analysis of data from a longitudinal, US population representative sample survey BMJ 2013; doi : 10.1136 / bmj.f7102 (Published 17 December 2013)