Katrina Sharples
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Katrina Jane Sharples is a New Zealand biostatistician. She is full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Otago, and head of statistics at Otago.[2]
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Katrina Sharples | |
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Occupation | biostatistician |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Washington |
Thesis | Regression Analysis of Correlated Binary Data (1989) |
Doctoral advisor | Norman Breslow |
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Institutions | University of Otago |
Doctoral students | Ayesha Verrall[1] |
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Sharples completed a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Washington in 1989. Her dissertation, Regression Analysis of Correlated Binary Data, was supervised by Norman Breslow.[3]
Her research has included work on cattle-based spreading of leptospirosis in Tanzania,[4] and a study of tuberculosis in Indonesia.[5]
Sharples is also a viola player in the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra,[6] and has performed in smaller string ensembles in Dunedin.[7]