Biography:Katrina Sharples

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Short description: New Zealand biostatistician
Katrina Sharples
Occupationbiostatistician
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Washington
ThesisRegression Analysis of Correlated Binary Data (1989)
Doctoral advisorNorman Breslow
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Otago
Doctoral studentsAyesha Verrall[1]

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]

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

  1. Verrall, Ayesha (2018). Innate Factors in Early Clearance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Doctoral thesis). OUR Archive-University of Otago.
  2. (in en-nz) 30 new Professors for the University of Otago, 10 December 2019, https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago729509.html, retrieved 2021-01-07 
  3. Katrina Sharples at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Gibb, John (14 June 2018), "Cattle major link to disease", Rural Life, https://www.odt.co.nz/rural-life/dairy/cattle-major-link-disease 
  5. Gibb, John (22 April 2019), "Otago health researchers get major grant", Otago Daily Times, https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/university-of-otago/otago-health-researchers-get-major-grant 
  6. Players, Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, 6 October 2015, https://dso.org.nz/about-us/players/, retrieved 2019-09-08 
  7. Bouman, Elizabeth (6 March 2017), "Haydn and chocolate a merry mix", Otago Daily Times, https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/otago-daily-times/20170306/281655369864171 

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