Kellie Jo Archer (born 1969) is a

biostatistician Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experimen ...

specializing in

microarray analysis techniques Microarray analysis techniques are used in interpreting the data generated from experiments on DNA (Gene chip analysis), RNA, and protein microarrays, which allow researchers to investigate the expression state of a large number of genes - in many ...

. She is a professor of biostatistics and chair of the biostatistics department at the

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

Education and career

Archer graduated

summa 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 ...

from Franklin College in 1991. After earning a master's degree at the Ohio State University in 1993, she worked for several years as a medical data analyst before completing her Ph.D. at the Ohio State University College of Public Health in 2001. Her dissertation, ''Goodness-of-Fit for Logistic Regression Models Developed Using Data Collected from a Complex Sampling Design'', was supervised by Stanley Lemeshow. She became an assistant professor at

Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a public research university in Richmond, Virginia. VCU was founded in 1838 as the medical department of Hampden–Sydney College, becoming the Medical College of Virginia in 1854. In 1968, the Virgini ...

in 2002, earning tenure there in 2009, becoming director of the VCU Massey Cancer Center Biostatistics Shared Resource in 2011, and being promoted to full professor in 2015. She moved to Ohio State in 2016, and continues to hold an affiliate position at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Recognition

Archer was named a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

in 2021. She was elected chair of the ASA Statistical Learning and Data Science section in 2021.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Archer, Kellie 1969 births Living people American statisticians American women statisticians Franklin College (Indiana) alumni Virginia Commonwealth University faculty Ohio State University faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association Ohio State University Graduate School alumni