Sue Ellen Leurgans [1] [2] [3] is a biostatistician known for her work on disorders of human movement, including those caused by occupational injury and Parkinson's disease. She is a professor of neurological sciences at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. [4]
Leurgans graduated in statistics from Princeton University, [4] and earned her Ph.D. in statistics in 1978 from Stanford University. Her dissertation, Asymptotic Distribution Theory in Generalized Isotonic Regression, was supervised by Thomas W. Sager. [5] [6] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington. [4]
Leurgans is one of the authors of the 2007 revision of the Unified Parkinson's disease rating scale. [7] She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 1990. [8] She is married to physicist Cosmas Zachos.
Sue Ellen Leurgans [1] [2] [3] is a biostatistician known for her work on disorders of human movement, including those caused by occupational injury and Parkinson's disease. She is a professor of neurological sciences at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. [4]
Leurgans graduated in statistics from Princeton University, [4] and earned her Ph.D. in statistics in 1978 from Stanford University. Her dissertation, Asymptotic Distribution Theory in Generalized Isotonic Regression, was supervised by Thomas W. Sager. [5] [6] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington. [4]
Leurgans is one of the authors of the 2007 revision of the Unified Parkinson's disease rating scale. [7] She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 1990. [8] She is married to physicist Cosmas Zachos.