Dorota Maria Dabrowska is a Polish statistician known for applying

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and

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s to

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es and

survival analysis Survival analysis is a branch of statistics for analyzing the expected duration of time until one event occurs, such as death in biological organisms and failure in mechanical systems. This topic is called reliability theory, reliability analysis ...

. Dabrowska's estimator, from her paper "Kaplan–Meier estimate on the plane" (''

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'', 1988) is a widely used tool for bivariate survival under random censoring.

Early life

Dąbrowska earned a master's degree in mathematics from the

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. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1984 at the

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. Her dissertation, supervised by Kjell Doksum, was ''Rank Tests for Independence for Bivariate Censored Data''.

Career

After completing her doctorate, she joined the faculty at the

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, where she is a professor of

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and statistics. At UCLA, she made fundamental contributions to the estimation and asymptotic theory in semi-Markov and Markov renewal models. As well as being a researcher in statistics, Dabrowska is also one of the translators of an influential 1923 paper on

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, originally written in Polish. Dabrowska is a Fellow of the

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References

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