Olga Pendleton
{{short description|American statistician}}
Olga J. Pendleton is an American statistician known for her research on road traffic safety and alcohol-impaired driving as a statistician at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, and as a member of the "Zero Alcohol" committee of the National Research Council.{{r|dui}}
She has also published highly-cited work on the geometric design of roads{{r|hadc}} and, with Ronald R. Hocking, on multiple linear regression.{{r|dilemma}}
Education
Pendleton did her undergraduate studies at the University of South Alabama.{{r|nmu}}
As Olga Pendleton Hackney, she did her graduate studies at Emory University. She earned a master's degree in 1973 with the thesis Periodic Regression Revisited (supervised by Yick-Kwong Chan) and completed her Ph.D.
with the 1976 dissertation Hypothesis Testing In The General Linear Model.{{r|nmu|css|wc}}
Career
Before working at the Texas Transportation Institute, Pendleton became an assistant professor at Mississippi State University,{{r|css}} and then was associated with the University of Texas System Cancer Center, starting in 1980.{{r|utexas}} As Olga J. Hocking and later Olga J. Herman, she has taught at Northern Michigan University since 2011.{{r|nmu}}
Recognition
She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1991.{{r|fasa}}
References
{{Reflist|refs=
| last1 = Hocking | first1 = R.R.
| last2 = Pendleton | first2 = O.J.
| date = January 1983
| doi = 10.1080/03610928308828477
| issue = 5
| journal = Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
| pages = 497–527
| title = The regression dilemma
| volume = 12}}
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Category:Emory University alumni
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