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Katherine Halvorsen

Professor Emerita of Mathematics & Statistics

Biography

Katherine Halvorsen has taught in such exotic places as Lusaka, in Zambia, and Newton, Massachusetts. Her research involves the problem of analyzing data assembled from different sources.

Halvorsen’s fields of interests include statistical education, statistical methods in medical research and hiking.

Education

D.Sc., Harvard School of Public Health
M.S., University of Washington
M.Ed., Boston University
B.A., University of Michigan