Paula K. Hagedorn Diehr | |
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Alma mater | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | University of Washington |
Thesis | The Mixture Problem in Tiny Samples (1970) |
Doctoral advisor | Wilfrid Dixon |
Paula K. Hagedorn Diehr is an American biostatistician whose research topics generally concern health systems and ageing, and have included work on spatial variability and longitudinal data, [1] health care utilization, mental health, insurance, diagnosis, [2] [3] and prediction of healthy life expectancies. [2] [4] She is a professor emerita of biostatistics, with a joint appointment in health systems and population health, at the University of Washington. [1] [2]
Diehr graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1963. [3] She went to the University of California, Los Angeles for graduate study, earning a master's degree and Ph.D. in biostatistics there. [1] [3] Her 1970 doctoral dissertation, The Mixture Problem in Tiny Samples, was supervised by Wilfrid Dixon. [5] She joined the University of Washington faculty in 1970. [3]
Diehr was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1994, [6] a Fellow of the Association for Health Services Research in 1996, [7] and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1997. [8]
In 2013 Harvey Mudd College gave her their HMC Outstanding Alumni Award. [3]