Lisa Weissfeld

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Lisa Anderson Weissfeld is an American biostatistician whose publications include work on the risks, prognoses, and treatment outcomes for pneumonia, sepsis, and end-of-life care; she is one of the authors of the pneumonia severity index. She has also published basic research on sparse data in meta-analysis, on multicollinearity, and on the dichotomization of ordinal data, and is one of the namesakes of the Wei–Lin–Weissfeld model in recurrent event analysis. [1] [2] She worked for many years as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Education and career

Weissfeld earned a Ph.D. in 1982 at the University of Pittsburgh, with the dissertation Bounds on the Efficiencies of Commonly Used Nonparametric Statistics supervised by Sam Wieand. [3] She became a professor of biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh in 1990. [4]

In the mid-1990s, she became one of the founders and leaders of the Risk Analysis Section of the American Statistical Association, [5] and one of its early chairs; [6] she also served as secretary–treasurer for the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. [7] She left academia to become a statistical consultant in Washington, DC in 2014. [4]

Recognition

Weissfeld was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1999. [8]

Personal life

Weissfeld is married to Joel Weissfeld, an epidemiologist. [4]

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References

  1. Li, Qian H.; Lagakos, Stephen W. (April 1997), "Use of The Wei–Lin–Weissfeld method for the analysis of a recurring and a terminating event", Statistics in Medicine, 16 (8): 925–940, doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19970430)16:8<925::aid-sim545>3.0.co;2-2
  2. Metcalfe, Chris; Thompson, Simon G. (April 2007), "Wei, Lin and Weissfeld's marginal analysis of multivariate failure time data: should it be applied to a recurrent events outcome?", Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 16 (2): 103–122, doi:10.1177/0962280206071926, hdl: 1983/0c15aeee-0913-4eca-a5cc-05e7211e2f53
  3. Lisa Weissfeld at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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