Olga Pendleton

Olga J. Pendleton is an American statistician known for her research on road traffic safety and alcohol-impaired driving as a statistician at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, and as a member of the "Zero Alcohol" committee of the National Research Council.^[1] She has also published highly-cited work on the geometric design of roads^[2] and, with Ronald R. Hocking, on multiple linear regression.^[3]

Education

Pendleton did her undergraduate studies at the University of South Alabama.^[4] As Olga Pendleton Hackney, she did her graduate studies at Emory University. She earned a master's degree in 1973 with the thesis Periodic Regression Revisited (supervised by Yick-Kwong Chan) and completed her Ph.D. with the 1976 dissertation Hypothesis Testing In The General Linear Model.^[4][5][6]

Career

Before working at the Texas Transportation Institute, Pendleton became an assistant professor at Mississippi State University,^[5] and then was associated with the University of Texas System Cancer Center, starting in 1980.^[7] As Olga J. Hocking and later Olga J. Herman, she has taught at Northern Michigan University since 2011.^[4]

Recognition

She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1991.^[8]