Elizabeth DeLong

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Elizabeth Ray DeLong is an American biostatistician. She is a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Duke University, where she chairs the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and is affiliated with the Duke Clinical Research Institute and Duke Cancer Institute.

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Education

DeLong graduated from the University of Maine in 1969, and earned a master's degree there in 1970. [1] [2] She completed her Ph.D. in 1979 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [1] Her dissertation, supervised by Pranab K. Sen, was Estimation of General Parameters using Progressively Truncated U-Statistics. [3]

Career

After completing her doctorate, she joined Duke as a statistician in Community and Family Medicine and in the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1979. In 1987, she left academia to work in industry as directory of biostatistics at Quintiles, [2] but returned as an assistant professor in Community and Family Medicine in 1991, and added a joint appointment in Anesthesiology in 1996. In 2001 she moved to the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. She has been chair of the department since 2007. [1]

In 2013, DeLong was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [4]

Research interests

Her interests in the applications of statistics include outcomes research and comparative effectiveness research, [1] and she has also published highly cited work in mathematical statistics on nonparametric methods for comparing the areas under correlated receiver operating characteristic curves. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Elizabeth Ray DeLong, Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics", Scholars@Duke, Duke University, retrieved 2017-11-22
  2. 1 2 "Dr. Elizabeth DeLong", Women in Duke Medicine: An oral history exhibit, Duke University, retrieved 2017-11-22. See also the linked interview with DeLong, dated October 21, 2010.
  3. Theses and Dissertations, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, retrieved 2017-11-22
  4. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-22
  5. DeLong, Elizabeth R.; DeLong, David M.; Clarke-Pearson, Daniel L. (September 1988), "Comparing the areas under two or more correlated receiver operating characteristic curves: a nonparametric approach", Biometrics, 44 (3): 837–45, doi:10.2307/2531595, JSTOR   2531595, PMID   3203132