Margaret Sullivan Pepe
# Margaret Sullivan Pepe

Margaret Patricia O'Sullivan Pepe (born June 24, 1961) is an Irish biostatistician specializing in the evaluation of tests and biomarkers for disease screening. She is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health and a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

## Life

Pepe was born June 24, 1961, in Cork, Ireland to Seamus O'Sullivan. She attended Mount Mercy College, Cork. She completed a B.Sc. in mathematics science at the University College Cork in 1981. Pepe earned a M.S. in statistics in 1984 and a Ph.D. in biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health in 1986. Her dissertation was titled, A new class of statistics for the two-sample survival analysis problem. Thomas R. Fleming was her doctoral advisor.

In 1997, she won the Mortimer Spiegelman Award.

Pepe is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health. She is a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

## Selected works

* Pepe, Margaret Sullivan (2003). The Statistical Evaluation of Medical Tests for Classification and Prediction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850984-4.
