Katrina Jane Sharples is a New Zealand biostatistician.
[2] Sharples completed a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Washington in 1989.
Her dissertation, Regression Analysis of Correlated Binary Data, was supervised by Norman Breslow.
[3] Her research has included work on cattle-based spreading of leptospirosis in Tanzania,[4] and a study of tuberculosis in Indonesia.
[5] Sharples is also a viola player in the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra,[6] and has performed in smaller string ensembles in Dunedin.