Katrina Sharples

Katrina Jane Sharples is a New Zealand biostatistician. She is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Otago, and head of statistics at Otago.[1]

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.[2]

Her research has included work on cattle-based spreading of leptospirosis in Tanzania,[3] and a study of tuberculosis in Indonesia.[4]

Sharples is also a viola player in the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra,[5] and has performed in smaller string ensembles in Dunedin.[6]

References
  1. Assoc Prof Katrina Sharples, University of Otago Department of Mathematics and Statistics, retrieved 2019-09-08
  2. Katrina Sharples at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Gibb, John (14 June 2018), "Cattle major link to disease", Rural Life
  4. Gibb, John (22 April 2019), "Otago health researchers get major grant", Otago Daily Times
  5. Players, Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, 2015-10-06, retrieved 2019-09-08
  6. Bouman, Elizabeth (6 March 2017), "Haydn and chocolate a merry mix", Otago Daily Times
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