Paula K. Hagedorn Diehr is an American biostatistician whose research topics generally concern health systems and ageing, and have included work on spatial variability and longitudinal data,[1] health care utilization, mental health, insurance, diagnosis,[2][3] and prediction of healthy life expectancies.
[1][2] Diehr graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1963.
[3] She went to the University of California, Los Angeles for graduate study, earning a master's degree and Ph.D. in biostatistics there.
[1][3] Her 1970 doctoral dissertation, The Mixture Problem in Tiny Samples, was supervised by Wilfrid Dixon.
[8] In 2013 Harvey Mudd College gave her their HMC Outstanding Alumni Award.