Biography:Paula Diehr
Paula K. Hagedorn Diehr | |
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| Alma mater | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Washington |
| Thesis | The Mixture Problem in Tiny Samples (1970) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wilfrid Dixon |
Paula K. Hagedorn Diehr is an American biostatistician whose research topics generally concern health systems and ageing, and have included work on spatial variability and longitudinal data,[1] health care utilization, mental health, insurance, diagnosis,[2][3] and prediction of healthy life expectancies.[2][4] She is a professor emerita of biostatistics, with a joint appointment in health systems and population health, at the University of Washington.[1][2]
Education and career
Diehr graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1963.[3] She went to the University of California, Los Angeles for graduate study, earning a master's degree and Ph.D. in biostatistics there.[1][3] Her 1970 doctoral dissertation, The Mixture Problem in Tiny Samples, was supervised by Wilfrid Dixon.[5] She joined the University of Washington faculty in 1970.[3]
Recognition
Diehr was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1994,[6] a Fellow of the Association for Health Services Research in 1996,[7] and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1997.[8]
In 2013 Harvey Mudd College gave her their HMC Outstanding Alumni Award.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Paula Diehr", People (University of Washington Biostatistics), https://www.biostat.washington.edu/people/paula-diehr, retrieved 2021-07-11
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Paula Diehr", Faculty (University of Washington Health Systems and Population Health), https://depts.washington.edu/hserv/faculty/Diehr_Paula, retrieved 2021-07-11
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Alumni Association to Honor Achievers", Harvey Mudd College News (Harvey Mudd College), March 5, 2013, https://www.hmc.edu/about-hmc/2013/03/05/alumni-association-to-honor-achievers/, retrieved 2021-07-11
- ↑ "How Many Healthy and Able Years Do You Have Left?", Northwest Prime Time, April 1, 2016, http://northwestprimetime.com/news/2016/apr/01/how-many-healthy-and-able-years-do-you-have-left/
- ↑ Paula Diehr at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2021-07-11
- ↑ "Appendix E: Biographical Sketches", Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late, National Academies Press, 2002, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK220630/
- ↑ Historic fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, https://www.aaas.org/fellows/historic, retrieved 2021-07-11
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