Scott Zeger

{{short description|American biostatistician}}

Scott Lewis Zeger is an American biostatistician.

Zeger earned his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a master's of science in at Drexel University, and his doctorate at Princeton University.{{cite news |title=Scott L. Zeger, PhD |url=https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/784/scott-l-zeger |access-date=29 November 2023 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health}} Zeger's doctoral dissertation, Frequency Domain Analyses of Spatial Time Series with Application to Ozone, was written under the direction of Peter Bloomfield, and published in 1982.{{MathGenealogy}} Zeger is the John C. Malone Professor of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University.{{cite news |title=Scott Zeger |url=https://malonecenter.jhu.edu/people/scott-zeger/ |access-date=29 November 2023 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare}}

Zeger was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1995.{{cite news |title=ASA Fellows |url=https://ww2.amstat.org/fellows/ |access-date=29 November 2023 |publisher=American Statistical Association}} He was elected to membership of the National Academy of Medicine in 2006.{{cite news |title=Dr. Scott L Zeger |url=https://nam.edu/member/?member_id=xbPkOXOpHO52PdzKj8C9LQ%3D%3D |access-date=29 November 2023 |publisher=United States National Academy of Medicine}}