Nonparametric Statistics for Health Care Research: Statistics for Small Samples and Unusual Distributions

About Marjorie (Marg) A. Pett

Marjorie A. Pett MStat DSW is a Research Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah Salt Lake City Utah having been on the faculty since 1980. By her own admission she is a collector of academic degrees: BA (Brown University) MS in sociology (University of Stockholm Sweden) MSW (Smith College) DSW (University of Utah) and MStat (Biostatistics) (University of Utah). Dr. Pett has a strong commitment to facilitating the practical application of statistics in the social behavioral and biological sciences especially among practitioners in health care settings. She has designed and taught graduate courses to students from a variety of disciplines at the beginning and advanced levels including research design and data management parametric and nonparametric statistics biostatistics multivariate statistics instrument development and factor analysis. She has tried to approach the teaching of statistics with humor and from a clinicians perspective and has been the recipient of several distinguished teaching awards both at the College and University levels. Her most recent research interests include the development of client-centered assessment tools and interventions to evaluate and enhance health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for persons with intellectual disabilities. She is the author of numerous research articles and chapters and is an author of the Sage publication Making Sense of Factor Analysis: The Use of Factor Analysis for Instrument Development in Health Care Research. When not engaged in research writing or teaching Marge is a (now retired) state soccer referee devotee of tennis an avid (high handicap) golfer student of Italian and French reader of mystery novels grandmother to three mother to two and wife to (only) one.