Kathryn M. Roeder is an American statistician known for her development of statistical methods to uncover the genetic basis of complex disease and her contributions to mixture models, semiparametric inference, and multiple testing.
[3][4] Roeder did her undergraduate studies at the University of Idaho, where she graduated in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in wildlife resources.
[2] Roeder worked as a biologist for a year in the Pacific Northwest before returning to academia for graduate studies in statistics.
[3] She completed her Ph.D. in 1988 at Pennsylvania State University;[2][3] her dissertation, supervised by Bruce G. Lindsay, was Method of Spacings for Semiparametric Inference.
[1] Roeder is married to Bernard J. Devlin, a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh, and has worked with him on research involving genetics and autism.