Paula K. Hagedorn Diehr is an American biostatistician whose research topics generally concern health systems and ageing, and have included work on spatial variability and longitudinal data,[1] health care utilization, mental health, insurance, diagnosis,[2][3] and prediction of healthy life expectancies.[2][4] She is a professor emerita of biostatistics, with a joint appointment in health systems and population health, at the University of Washington.[1][2]
Paula K. Hagedorn Diehr
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| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Washington |
| Thesis | The Mixture Problem in Tiny Samples (1970) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wilfrid Dixon |
Diehr graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1963.[3] She went to the University of California, Los Angeles for graduate study, earning a master's degree and Ph.D. in biostatistics there.[1][3] Her 1970 doctoral dissertation, The Mixture Problem in Tiny Samples, was supervised by Wilfrid Dixon.[5] She joined the University of Washington faculty in 1970.[3]
Diehr was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1994,[6] a Fellow of the Association for Health Services Research in 1996,[7] and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1997.[8]
In 2013 Harvey Mudd College gave her their HMC Outstanding Alumni Award.[3]