Andrea Beth Troxel is an American biostatistician whose research involves longitudinal data,

missing data In statistics, missing data, or missing values, occur when no data value is stored for the variable in an observation. Missing data are a common occurrence and can have a significant effect on the conclusions that can be drawn from the data. Mi ...

, the design of

clinical trial Clinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human subject research, human participants designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel v ...

s, and

behavioral economics Behavioral economics is the study of the psychological (e.g. cognitive, behavioral, affective, social) factors involved in the decisions of individuals or institutions, and how these decisions deviate from those implied by traditional economi ...

(the study of how financial incentives to medical patients such as diet rewards can affect their health). She is a professor in the Department of Population Health and director of the Division of Biostatistics in the

New York University Grossman School of Medicine The New York University Grossman School of Medicine is a medical school of New York University, a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1841 and is one of two medical schools of the university, the other being the NYU Gr ...

Education and career

Troxel studied applied mathematics at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

, graduating

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in 1991. She completed a doctorate (Sc.D.) at the

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school at Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. It was named after Hong Kong entrepreneur Chan Tseng-hsi in 2014 following a US$350 ...

in 1995. Her dissertation, ''Methods for the Analysis of Longitudinal Measurements Subject to Nonignorable Non-Monotone Missing Data'', was supervised by David P. Harrington. After postdoctoral research from 1995 to 1997 at the

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, formerly known as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and also known as Fred Hutch or The Hutch, is a cancer research institute established in 1975 in Seattle, Washington. History The center grew out ...

, she became an assistant professor of clinical public health at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

in 1997, changing her affiliation to Columbia's Department of Biostatistics in 2000. She moved to the

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania The Perelman School of Medicine (commonly known as Penn Med) is the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, a Private university, private, Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia. Founded in 1765, the Perelman School of M ...

in 2003, becoming a full professor there in 2011 before moving to her present position at New York University in 2016.

Recognition

Troxel was elected as a

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in 2012.

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* {{Authority control, state=collapsed Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American statisticians American women statisticians Yale University alumni Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health faculty Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania faculty New York University Grossman School of Medicine faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association