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]
Katrina Sharples | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | biostatistician |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| Thesis | Regression Analysis of Correlated Binary Data (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Norman Breslow |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Otago |
| Doctoral students | Ayesha Verrall[1] |
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]
References edit
- ^ Verrall, Ayesha (2018). Innate Factors in Early Clearance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Doctoral thesis). OUR Archive-University of Otago.
- ^ "30 new Professors for the University of Otago", University of Otago, 10 December 2019, retrieved 2021-01-07
- ^ Katrina Sharples at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Gibb, John (14 June 2018), "Cattle major link to disease", Rural Life
- ^ Gibb, John (22 April 2019), "Otago health researchers get major grant", Otago Daily Times
- ^ Players, Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, 6 October 2015, retrieved 2019-09-08
- ^ Bouman, Elizabeth (6 March 2017), "Haydn and chocolate a merry mix", Otago Daily Times
External links edit
- Katrina Sharples publications indexed by Google Scholar