Andrea Beth Troxel is an American biostatistician whose research involves

longitudinal data In statistics and econometrics, panel data and longitudinal data are both multi-dimensional data involving measurements over time. Panel data is a subset of longitudinal data where observations are for the same subjects each time. Time series and ...

, missing data, the design of clinical trials, and

behavioral economics Behavioral economics studies the effects of psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural and social factors on the decisions of individuals or institutions, such as how those decisions vary from those implied by classical economic theory. ...

(the study of how financial incentives to medical patients such as diet rewards can affect their health). She is a professor in the Department of Population Health and director of the Division of Biostatistics in the New York University Grossman School of Medicine.

Education and career

Troxel studied applied mathematics at Yale University, graduating

cum laude Latin honors are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned. The system is primarily used in the United States. It is also used in some Sou ...

in 1991. She completed a doctorate (Sc.D.) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 1995. Her dissertation, ''Methods for the Analysis of Longitudinal Measurements Subject to Nonignorable Non-Monotone Missing Data'', was supervised by David P. Harrington. After postdoctoral research from 1995 to 1997 at the

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, formerly known as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and also known as Fred Hutch or The Hutch, is a cancer research institute established in 1975 in Seattle, Washington. History The center grew out o ...

, she became an assistant professor of clinical public health at Columbia University in 1997, changing her affiliation to Columbia's Department of Biostatistics in 2000. She moved to the

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania The Perelman School of Medicine, commonly known as Penn Med, is the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1765, the Perelman School of Medicine is the oldest medi ...

in 2003, becoming a full professor there in 2011 before moving to her present position at New York University in 2016.

Recognition

Troxel was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2012.

References

External links

Home page
* {{Authority control, state=collapsed Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American statisticians American women statisticians Yale University alumni Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health faculty Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania faculty New York University Grossman School of Medicine faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association