About Katrina Sharples
Katrina Sharples was a violist, statistician and biostatistician.
Katrina Jane Sharples is a New Zealand biostatistician. She is a full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Otago, and head of statistics at Otago.
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.
Her research has included work on cattle-based spreading of leptospirosis in Tanzania, and a study of tuberculosis in Indonesia.
Sharples is also a viola player in the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, and has performed in smaller string ensembles in Dunedin.
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