Olga J. Pendleton is an American statistician known for her research on road traffic safety and alcohol-impaired driving as a statistician at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, and as a member of the "Zero Alcohol" committee of the National Research Council.
[1] She has also published highly-cited work on the geometric design of roads[2] and, with Ronald R. Hocking, on multiple linear regression.
[4] As Olga Pendleton Hackney, she did her graduate studies at Emory University.
She earned a master's degree in 1973 with the thesis Periodic Regression Revisited (supervised by Yick-Kwong Chan) and completed her Ph.D. with the 1976 dissertation Hypothesis Testing In The General Linear Model.
[4][5][6] Before working at the Texas Transportation Institute, Pendleton became an assistant professor at Mississippi State University,[5] and then was associated with the University of Texas System Cancer Center, starting in 1980.