Biography:Sue Leurgans
Sue Ellen Leurgans[1][2][3] is a biostatistician known for her work on disorders of human movement, including those caused by occupational injury and Parkinson's disease. She is a professor of neurological sciences at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.[4]
Leurgans graduated in statistics from Princeton University,[4] and earned her Ph.D. in statistics in 1978 from Stanford University. Her dissertation, Asymptotic Distribution Theory in Generalized Isotonic Regression, was supervised by Thomas W. Sager.[5][6] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington.[4]
Leurgans is one of the authors of the 2007 revision of the Unified Parkinson's disease rating scale.[7] She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 1990.[8] She is married to physicist Cosmas Zachos.
References
- ↑ PubMed database list of SE Leurgans' biomedical publications
- ↑ MyBibliography publications
- ↑ Publications in Google Scholar
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sue E. Leurgans, PhD, Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, https://www.michaeljfox.org/foundation/researchers.php?id=694, retrieved 2019-01-19
- ↑ Sue Leurgans at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Leurgans, S. (1982). "Asymptotic distributions of slope-of-greatest-convex-minorant estimators", The Annals of Statistics, 10 pp 287-296,online
- ↑ Goetz, Christopher G.; Fahn, Stanley; Martinez-Martin, Pablo; Poewe, Werner; Sampaio, Cristina; Stebbins, Glenn T.; Stern, Matthew B.; Tilley, Barbara C. et al. (1 January 2007), "Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS): Process, format, and clinimetric testing plan", Movement Disorders 22 (1): 41–47, doi:10.1002/mds.21198, PMID 17115387
- ↑ Presidents 1971–2017, Caucus for Women in Statistics, https://cwstat.org/wp-content/uploads/presidents-through-2016.pdf, retrieved 2019-01-19
 |  |
