Biography:Mariza de Andrade
Mariza de Andrade | |
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| Institutions | Mayo Clinic |
| Thesis | Estimation of the Genotypic Parameters under Non- Normal Models (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Elizabeth A. Thompson |
Mariza de Andrade is a Brazilian-American biostatistician who works as a professor of biostatistics at the Mayo Clinic, and is known for her work on statistical genetics and precision medicine.
Early life
De Andrade earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto in São Paulo and a master's degree in statistics at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Rio de Janeiro. She moved to the University of Washington for additional graduate study, earning a second master's degree and Ph.D. in biostatistics there.[1] Her 1990 dissertation, Estimation of the Genotypic Parameters under Non- Normal Models, was supervised by Elizabeth A. Thompson.[2]
Career
She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston before joining the Mayo Clinic.[1]
In 2004, de Andrade served as president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.[3] In 2017, the American Statistical Association listed her as one of their Fellows.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mariza de Andrade, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic, https://www.mayo.edu/research/faculty/de-andrade-mariza-ph-d/bio-00027777, retrieved 2018-12-19
- ↑ Mariza de Andrade at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Presidents 1971–2017, Caucus for Women in Statistics, https://cwstat.org/wp-content/uploads/presidents-through-2016.pdf, retrieved 2018-12-19
- ↑ ASA Bestows Prestigious Fellow Designation Upon 62 Statisticians, American Statistical Association, 2017, https://www.amstat.org/ASA/News/ASA-Bestows-Prestigious-Fellow-Designation-Upon-62-Statisticians.aspx, retrieved 2018-12-19
External links
- Mariza de Andrade publications indexed by Google Scholar
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