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Lisa Weissfeld

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Lisa Anderson Weissfeld is an American biostatistician whose publications include work on the risks, prognoses, and treatment outcomes for pneumonia, sepsis, and end-of-life care; she is one of the authors of the pneumonia severity index. She has also published basic research on sparse data in meta-analysis, on multicollinearity, and on the dichotomization of ordinal data, and is one of the namesakes of the Wei–Lin–Weissfeld model in recurrent event analysis.[1][2] She worked for many years as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Education and career

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Weissfeld earned a Ph.D. in 1982 at the University of Pittsburgh, with the dissertation Bounds on the Efficiencies of Commonly Used Nonparametric Statistics supervised by Sam Wieand.[3] She became a professor of biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh in 1990.[4]

In the mid-1990s, she became one of the founders and leaders of the Risk Analysis Section of the American Statistical Association,[5] and one of its early chairs;[6] she also served as secretary–treasurer for the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.[7] She left academia to become a statistical consultant in Washington, DC in 2014.[4]

Recognition

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Weissfeld was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1999.[8]

Personal life

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Weissfeld is married to Joel Weissfeld, an epidemiologist.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Li, Qian H.; Lagakos, Stephen W. (April 1997), "Use of The Wei–Lin–Weissfeld method for the analysis of a recurring and a terminating event", Statistics in Medicine, 16 (8): 925–940, doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19970430)16:8<925::aid-sim545>3.0.co;2-2
  2. ^ Metcalfe, Chris; Thompson, Simon G. (April 2007), "Wei, Lin and Weissfeld's marginal analysis of multivariate failure time data: should it be applied to a recurrent events outcome?", Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 16 (2): 103–122, doi:10.1177/0962280206071926
  3. ^ Lisa Weissfeld at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ a b c "Weissfelds say goodbye to Pitt" (PDF), Epidemiology Newsletter, p. 2, March 2015, retrieved 2023-04-24
  5. ^ "History", Risk Analysis Section, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2023-04-24
  6. ^ "Section officers, 1997", Risk Analysis Section, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2023-04-24
  7. ^ "Library", Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2023-04-24
  8. ^ Fellows, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2023-04-24