Margaret Sullivan Pepe

Margaret Sullivan Pepe
Born	Margaret Patricia O'Sullivan (1961-06-24) June 24, 1961 (age 64) Cork, Ireland
Alma mater	University College Cork University of Washington School of Public Health
Awards	Mortimer Spiegelman Award (1997)
Scientific career
Fields	Biostatistics
Institutions	University of Washington School of Public Health Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Doctoral advisor	Thomas R. Fleming
Doctoral students	Lori E. Dodd

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. ^[1] She attended Mount Mercy College, Cork. ^[1] She completed a B.Sc. in mathematics science at the University College Cork in 1981. ^[2] 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. ^[2] Her dissertation was titled, A new class of statistics for the two-sample survival analysis problem. ^[1] Thomas R. Fleming was her doctoral advisor. ^[3]

In 1997, she won the Mortimer Spiegelman Award. ^[4]

Pepe is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health. ^[2] She is a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. ^[2]

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. Archived from the original on 2023-02-14. Retrieved 2023-02-14.