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Margaret Patricia O'Sullivan Pepe (born June 24, 1961) is an Irish biostatistician specializing in the evaluation of tests and biomarkers for disease screening. She is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health and a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Life

Pepe was born June 24, 1961, in Cork, Ireland to Seamus O'Sullivan. She attended Mount Mercy College, Cork. She completed a B.Sc. in mathematics science at the University College Cork in 1981. Pepe earned a M.S. in statistics in 1984 and a Ph.D. in biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health in 1986. Her dissertation was titled, A new class of statistics for the two-sample survival analysis problem. Thomas R. Fleming was her doctoral advisor.

In 1997, she won the Mortimer Spiegelman Award.

Pepe is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health. She is a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Works

• Pepe, Margaret Sullivan (2005). The Statistical Evaluation of Medical Tests for Classification and Prediction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850984-4.
• Pepe, M. (1997-09-01). "A regression modelling framework for receiver operating characteristic curves in medical diagnostic testing". Biometrika. 84 (3): 595–608. doi:10.1093/biomet/84.3.595. ISSN 0006-3444.
• Gu, W.; Pepe, M. S. (2008-05-23). "Estimating the capacity for improvement in risk prediction with a marker". Biostatistics. 10 (1): 172–186. doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxn025. ISSN 1465-4644. PMC 2639345. PMID 18714084.

References

1. ^ O'Sullivan, Margaret Patricia (1986). A new class of statistics for the two-sample survival analysis problem (Ph.D. thesis). University of Washington. OCLC 15155185.
2. ^ "Margaret Sullivan Pepe | Summer Institutes". si.biostat.washington.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
3. Margaret Sullivan Pepe at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. "Awards". www.apha.org. Retrieved 2023-02-14.

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