Katrina Sharples

Katrina Sharples
Occupationbiostatistician
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Washington
ThesisRegression Analysis of Correlated Binary Data (1989)
Doctoral advisorNorman Breslow
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Otago
Doctoral studentsAyesha Verrall[1]

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.[2]

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.[3]

Her research has included work on cattle-based spreading of leptospirosis in Tanzania,[4] and a study of tuberculosis in Indonesia.[5]

Sharples is also a viola player in the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra,[6] and has performed in smaller string ensembles in Dunedin.[7]

References

  1. ^ Verrall, Ayesha (2018). Innate Factors in Early Clearance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Doctoral thesis). OUR Archive-University of Otago.
  2. ^ "30 new Professors for the University of Otago", University of Otago, 10 December 2019, retrieved 2021-01-07
  3. ^ Katrina Sharples at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Gibb, John (14 June 2018), "Cattle major link to disease", Rural Life
  5. ^ Gibb, John (22 April 2019), "Otago health researchers get major grant", Otago Daily Times
  6. ^ Players, Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, 6 October 2015, retrieved 2019-09-08
  7. ^ Bouman, Elizabeth (6 March 2017), "Haydn and chocolate a merry mix", Otago Daily Times