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{{short description|American statistician}}
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| name        = Susan Murphy
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| caption     = Murphy in 2013
| birth_name  = Susan Allbritton Murphy
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1958|4|16|mf=y}}
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| nationality = {{wipe|United States}}
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| alma_mater  = B.S., [[Organization:Louisiana State University|Louisiana State University]], 1980 (Mathematics), Ph.D., [[Organization:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina]], 1989 (Statistics)
| occupation  = [[Statistician]]
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| employer                  = [[Organization:Harvard University|Harvard University]]
| organization              = The Methodology Center, [[Organization:Pennsylvania State University|Penn State]]
| known_for   = Applying statistical methods to [[Engineering:Clinical trial|clinical trial]]s of treatments for chronic and relapsing medical conditions
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'''Susan Allbritton Murphy''' (born April 16, 1958) is an American [[Statistician|statistician]], known for her work applying statistical methods to [[Engineering:Clinical trial|clinical trial]]s of treatments for chronic and relapsing medical conditions. She is a professor at [[Organization:Harvard University|Harvard University]], a MacArthur Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

== Biography and career ==
She grew up in rural Louisiana, and is "a serious hockey player."<ref>{{Cite news
| last = Berman
| first = Laura
| title = U-M statistician's real-world work wins her $625K genius grant
| work = The Detroit News
| accessdate = 2013-11-03
| date = 2013-09-30
| url = http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130930/METRO06/309300113#ixzz2gam8uiCp
}}</ref>
She graduated from [[Organization:Louisiana State University|Louisiana State University]] with a B.S. and from the [[Organization:University of North Carolina|University of North Carolina]] with a Ph.D.<ref name = "macfound">[http://www.macfound.org/fellows/898/ Susan Murphy — MacArthur Foundation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Her 1989 dissertation, ''Time-Dependent Coefficients in a Cox-Type Regression Model'', was supervised by [[Biography:Pranab K. Sen|Pranab K. Sen]].<ref>{{mathgenealogy|id=47478}}</ref>

Murphy was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Statistics at [[Organization:Pennsylvania State University|Pennsylvania State University]] from fall 1989 to fall 1997.<ref>[https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/people/cv/murphy_susan_cv.pdf Dr. Susan Murphy undated CV]</ref> She was an Associate and full Professor of Statistics at the [[Organization:University of Michigan|University of Michigan]] from spring 1998 to summer 2017. She is a Professor of Statistics at [[Organization:Harvard University|Harvard University]] as of fall 2017. She is also a principal investigator at The Methodology Center, at [[Organization:Pennsylvania State University|Penn State]].<ref>[http://methodology.psu.edu/people/smurphy Susan Murphy, Ph.D. | The Methodology Center<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

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She is developing "new methodologies to evaluate courses of treatment for individuals coping with chronic or relapsing disorders ... Murphy’s Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) is a means for learning how best to dynamically adapt treatment to each individual’s response over time. Using SMART, clinicians assess and modify patients’ treatments during the trial, an approach with potential applications in the treatment of a range of chronic diseases—such as ADHD, alcoholism, drug addiction, HIV/AIDS, and cardiovascular disease—that involve [[Medicine:Dynamic treatment regime|therapies that are regularly reconsidered and replaced]] as the disease progresses.<ref name = "macfound"/>
</blockquote>

Murphy is a Professor of Statistics at [[Organization:Harvard University|Harvard University]] and a Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She is also affiliated with Harvard's [[Organization:Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study|Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study]] as a Radcliffe Alumnae Professor.

==Recognition==
She won a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship.<ref name = "macfound"/> In 2015 she gave the Bradley Lecture at the University of Georgia. In 2016, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/may-3-2016-NAS-Election.html
|title=National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected |date= |accessdate=2016-05-05}}</ref> She was the R. A. Fisher Lecturer in 2018.<ref>[https://community.amstat.org/copss/awards/fisher-lecturer R.A. Fisher Award and Lectureship], Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, accessed 2018-11-04.</ref> In 2018, she was elected president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imstat.org/elections/|title=Institute of Mathematical Statistics election results |date = |accessdate=2018-12-10}}</ref> 

She is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm|title=Honored Fellows|publisher=Institute of Mathematical Statistics|accessdate=2017-11-24}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[Medicine:Dynamic treatment regime|Dynamic treatment regime]]

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