Margaret Sullivan Pepe
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.
Margaret Sullivan Pepe | |
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| 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 |
Life
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.[1]
In 1997, she won the Mortimer Spiegelman Award.[3]
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]
Selected works
- Pepe, Margaret Sullivan (2003). The Statistical Evaluation of Medical Tests for Classification and Prediction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850984-4.
References
- 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.
- "Margaret Sullivan Pepe | Summer Institutes". si.biostat.washington.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
- "Awards". www.apha.org. Retrieved 2023-02-14.