Patricia F. Moodie Research Scholar Department of Mathematics & Statistics University of Winnipeg E-mail: p dot moodie at uwinnipeg dot ca

I received an M.S. degree in Biostatistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an M.Sc. degree in Zoology from the University of Alberta, and a B.Sc. Honours in Biology from Memorial University of Newfoundland. I am currently a Research Scholar in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Winnipeg. Prior to that, I was Head of Biostatistics in the Computer Department for Health Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine (Community Health Sciences) in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba and a biostatistician in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation (Cancer Care Manitoba).

 At the University of Manitoba I taught a graduate biometry course in the Faculty of Medicine for many years as well as gave short courses and workshops in biostatistical applications and computer software. Teaching these courses was always rewarding as my students were happy to learn how statistics could be applied to shed light on their biomedical research questions. At the University of Winnipeg, I taught several courses in introductory statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. The challenge in teaching these introductory courses was to encourage those students who had a fear/hatred of mathematics and show them how statistical applications could be useful in their everyday life. My professional service included serving the Statistical Association of Manitoba as President, Vice-President, Secretary, and as organizer of several statistical workshops. I was also Statistical Consultant to the Editor in Chief of the Canadian Anaesthetists' Journal.

These years of teaching and consulting motivated me to write an intermediate-level statistics book specifically for non-statisticians and applied statisticians, who are primarily interested in what their data are revealing. Interpretation of results is key in this book APPLIED REGRESSION and ANOVA USING SAS®, co-written with Dallas Johnson, Professor Emeritis Kansas State University. 

Biostatistics has proven to be a rewarding career for me, offering intellectually exciting challenges while allowing an agreeable work/life balance. I am delighted that my daughters, Zoe and Erica are also enjoying the many benefits of careers in biostatistics.  I am also very happy that my granddaughter, Eleanor Wakefield, is enthusiastically pursuing a career in Statistics and Data Science.