Lisa Weissfeld

Lisa Anderson Weissfeld is an American biostatistician whose publications include work on the risks, prognoses, and treatment outcomes for pneumonia, sepsis, and end-of-life care; she is one of the authors of the pneumonia severity index. She has also published basic research on sparse data in meta-analysis, on multicollinearity, and on the dichotomization of ordinal data, and is one of the namesakes of the Wei–Lin–Weissfeld model in recurrent event analysis.^[1][2] She worked for many years as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Education and career

Weissfeld earned a Ph.D. in 1982 at the University of Pittsburgh, with the dissertation Bounds on the Efficiencies of Commonly Used Nonparametric Statistics supervised by Sam Wieand.^[3] She became a professor of biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh in 1990.^[4]

In the mid-1990s, she became one of the founders and leaders of the Risk Analysis Section of the

Weissfeld is married to Joel Weissfeld, an epidemiologist.[4]

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