Susan Helen Dadakis Horn 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 ...
. She is the senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research, a professor at the
University of Utah School of Medicine in the Health Services Innovation and Research Program, and an affiliate faculty member at
Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. She is known for her work in developing computational statistical models for clinicians to use in-practice to improve therapy results.
Career
Susan D. Horn graduated from
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
in 1964 with a
Bachelor of Arts
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in mathematics, after which she completed her
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Entertainment
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* ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic
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in statistics from
Stanford University
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in 1968. From 1968 to 1992, she was a professor at
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...
where she conducted research, taught mathematics and health services courses, and directed the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Program for Faculty Fellowships in Health Care Finance.
Awards and honors
She became a
Fellow of the American Statistical Association
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in 1978.
Personal life
Susan D. Horn is married to
Roger Horn
Roger Alan Horn (born January 19, 1942) is an American mathematician specializing in matrix analysis. He was research professor of mathematics at the University of Utah. He is known for formulating the Bateman–Horn conjecture with Paul T. Batem ...
, an American mathematician and fellow professor at the
University of Utah
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. They have three children. Their 16-year-old daughter
Ceres
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* Ceres (dwarf planet), the largest asteroid
* Ceres (mythology), the Roman goddess of agriculture
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Places
Brazil
* Ceres, Goiás, Brazil
* Ceres Microregion, in north-central Goiás ...
was killed in the
1987 Maryland train collision
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while returning to
Princeton University
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from the family home in Baltimore for her freshman year fall term final exams. Roger submitted a testimony on the crash to the US Senate Subcommittee on Transportation.
References
Living people
American statisticians
Biostatisticians
Johns Hopkins University faculty
University of Utah faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Stanford University alumni
American women mathematicians
Women statisticians
Cornell University alumni
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
21st-century American women
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