Nancy A. Obuchowski (born 1962)[1] is an American biostatistician whose research concerns the accuracy of image-based medical diagnoses, including the use of nonparametric statistics, receiver operating characteristic curves, and accounting for the effects of clustered data in this application.
She works at the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic as vice chair of Quantitative Health Sciences, with a joint appointment in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology.
[2] She is also a professor in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
She went to the University of Pittsburgh for graduate study in biostatistics, earning a master's degree in 1987 and completing her Ph.D. in 1991, the year in which she joined the Cleveland Institute.
[3][4] Obuchowski is a co-author of the book Statistical Methods in Diagnostic Medicine (with Xiao-Hua Zhou and Donna K. McClish, Wiley, 2002; 2nd ed., 2011).