Patricia Louise Meller Grambsch is an American

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 ...

known for her work on survival models including

proportional hazards model Proportional hazards models are a class of survival models in statistics. Survival models relate the time that passes, before some event occurs, to one or more covariates that may be associated with that quantity of time. In a proportional hazar ...

s. She is an associate professor emerita of biostatistics at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

Education and career

Grambsch completed her Ph.D. in 1980 at the

, with the dissertation ''Conditional Likelihood Inference'' supervised by

David Hinkley David Victor Hinkley (10 September 1944 – 11 January 2019) was a statistician known for his research in statistical models and inference and for his graduate-level books. Early life David Victor Hinkley was born on 10 September 1944 in Kent ...

. Before returning to Minnesota as a faculty member, she worked in the survival analysis group at the

Mayo Clinic The Mayo Clinic () is a nonprofit American academic medical center focused on integrated health care, education, and research. It employs over 4,500 physicians and scientists, along with another 58,400 administrative and allied health staff, ...

for five years, from 1985 to 1990.

Book

With Terry M. Therneau, Grambsch is the author of the book ''Modeling Survival Data: Extending the Cox Model'' (Statistics for Biology and Health, Springer, 2000).

Recognition

Grambsch was elected as 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 1996.

References

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