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]

  1. ^ Verrall, Ayesha (2018). Innate Factors in Early Clearance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Doctoral thesis). OUR Archive-University of Otago.
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