Margaret Sullivan Pepe
Margaret Sullivan Pepe | |
|---|---|
| Born | Margaret Patricia O'Sullivan June 24, 1961 Cork, Ireland |
| Alma mater | University College Cork University of Washington School of Public Health |
| Awards | Mortimer Spiegelman Award (1997) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biostatistics |
| Institutions | University of Washington School of Public Health Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas R. Fleming |
| Doctoral students | Lori E. Dodd |
Margaret Patricia O'Sullivan Pepe (born June 24, 1961) is an Irish biostatistician specializing in the evaluation of tests and biomarkers for disease screening. She is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health and a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Life
[edit]Pepe was born June 24, 1961, in Cork, Ireland to Seamus O'Sullivan.[1] She attended Mount Mercy College, Cork.[1] She completed a B.Sc. in mathematics science at the University College Cork in 1981.[2] Pepe earned a M.S. in statistics in 1984 and a Ph.D. in biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health in 1986.[2] Her dissertation was titled, A new class of statistics for the two-sample survival analysis problem.[1] Thomas R. Fleming was her doctoral advisor.[3]
In 1997, she won the Mortimer Spiegelman Award.[4]
Pepe is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health.[2] She is a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.[2]
Works
[edit]- Pepe, Margaret Sullivan (2005). The Statistical Evaluation of Medical Tests for Classification and Prediction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850984-4.
- Pepe, M. (1997-09-01). "A regression modelling framework for receiver operating characteristic curves in medical diagnostic testing". Biometrika. 84 (3): 595–608. doi:10.1093/biomet/84.3.595. ISSN 0006-3444.
- Gu, W.; Pepe, M. S. (2008-05-23). "Estimating the capacity for improvement in risk prediction with a marker". Biostatistics. 10 (1): 172–186. doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxn025. ISSN 1465-4644. PMC 2639345. PMID 18714084.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c O'Sullivan, Margaret Patricia (1986). A new class of statistics for the two-sample survival analysis problem (Ph.D. thesis). University of Washington. OCLC 15155185.
- ^ a b c d "Margaret Sullivan Pepe | Summer Institutes". si.biostat.washington.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
- ^ Margaret Sullivan Pepe at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Awards". www.apha.org. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- Living people
- 1961 births
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American women mathematicians
- American women statisticians
- Biostatisticians
- American medical researchers
- Women medical researchers
- 21st-century American women scientists
- 21st-century American biologists
- American women biologists
- Alumni of University College Cork
- University of Washington School of Public Health alumni
- University of Washington faculty
- Irish emigrants to the United States
- 21st-century Irish women scientists
- 21st-century Irish mathematicians
- Irish statisticians
- Expatriate academics in the United States
- Scientists from Cork (city)