Ruth Pfeiffer, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
Ruth Pfeiffer, Ph.D.
| Organization: | National Cancer InstituteDivision of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Biostatistics Branch |
| Address: | NCI Shady GroveRoom 7E142 |
| Phone: | 240-276-7317 |
| E-mail: | pfeiffer@mail.nih.gov |
- Biography
- Research Interests
- NCI Publications (text and abstracts from the DCEG publications database)
- Publications in PubMed
- Software
Biography
Dr. Pfeiffer was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to study applied statistics in 1992-1993, and received a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1998. She joined NCI in 1999 as a CRTA fellow. She was appointed as a principal investigator in 2001 and was tenured as a senior investigator in February 2007. Her research focuses on statistical methods for laboratory methods and problems arising in genetic epidemiology.
Research Interests
- Statistical methods for family data accounting for ascertainment
- Mixture models and applications
- Methods for analysis of high dimensional data
- Absolute risk modeling
- Power considerations for association studies
Software
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