Rebecca A. Betensky is a professor of biostatistics and chair of the department of biostatistics at New York University's School of Global Public Health.[1] Previously, she was a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she directed the biostatistics program for the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center. She was also a biostatistician for Massachusetts General Hospital, where she directed the biostatistics core of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.[2]
Betensky studied mathematics as an undergraduate in Harvard College, graduating in 1987. She completed a doctorate in statistics at Stanford University in 1992.[2] Her dissertation, supervised by David Siegmund, was A Study of Sequential Procedures for Comparing Three Treatments.[3][4]
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