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Katrina Sharples

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Katrina Jane Sharples is a New Zealand biostatistician. She is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Otago, and head of statistics at Otago.[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.[2]

Her research has included work on cattle-based spreading of leptospirosis in Tanzania,[3] and a study of tuberculosis in Indonesia.[4]

Sharples is also a viola player in the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra,[5] and has performed in smaller string ensembles in Dunedin.[6]

References

  1. ^ Assoc Prof Katrina Sharples, University of Otago Department of Mathematics and Statistics, retrieved 2019-09-08
  2. ^ Katrina Sharples at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Gibb, John (14 June 2018), "Cattle major link to disease", Rural Life
  4. ^ Gibb, John (22 April 2019), "Otago health researchers get major grant", Otago Daily Times
  5. ^ Players, Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, 2015-10-06, retrieved 2019-09-08
  6. ^ Bouman, Elizabeth (6 March 2017), "Haydn and chocolate a merry mix", Otago Daily Times