{{short description|American statistician}} '''Olga J. Pendleton''' is an American statistician known for her research on road traffic safety and alcohol-impaired driving as a statistician at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, and as a member of the "Zero Alcohol" committee of the National Research Council.{{r|dui}} She has also published highly-cited work on the geometric design of roads{{r|hadc}} and, with Ronald R. Hocking, on multiple linear regression.{{r|dilemma}}
==Education== Pendleton did her undergraduate studies at the University of South Alabama.{{r|nmu}} As Olga Pendleton Hackney, she did her graduate studies at Emory University. She earned a master's degree in 1973 with the thesis ''Periodic Regression Revisited'' (supervised by Yick-Kwong Chan) and completed her Ph.D. with the 1976 dissertation ''Hypothesis Testing In The General Linear Model''.{{r|nmu|css|wc}}
==Career== Before working at the Texas Transportation Institute, Pendleton became an assistant professor at Mississippi State University,{{r|css}} and then was associated with the University of Texas System Cancer Center, starting in 1980.{{r|utexas}} As Olga J. Hocking and later Olga J. Herman, she has taught at Northern Michigan University since 2011.{{r|nmu}}
==Recognition== She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1991.{{r|fasa}} ==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=css>{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XMzqjQDtAFIC&pg=PA70|page=70|title=Computer Science and Statistics--Tenth Annual Symposium on the Interface|publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards|year=1978}}</ref>
<ref name=dilemma>{{citation | last1 = Hocking | first1 = R.R. | last2 = Pendleton | first2 = O.J. | date = January 1983 | doi = 10.1080/03610928308828477 | issue = 5 | journal = Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods | pages = 497–527 | title = The regression dilemma | volume = 12}}</ref>
<ref name=dui>{{citation|title=Driving Under the Influence: A Report to Congress on Alcohol Limits|publisher=U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration|year=1992|page=A-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hfw5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA37}}</ref>
<ref name=fasa>{{citation|url=https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|title=ASA Fellows list|publisher=American Statistical Association|accessdate=2018-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425013824/https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|archive-date=2019-04-25|url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name=hadc>{{citation|title=Horizontal alignment design consistency for rural two-lane highways|url=https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/740|year=1995|publisher=US Department of Transportation|last1=Krammes |first1=R. A. |last2=Brackett |first2=R. Q. |last3=Shafer |first3=M. A. |last4=Ottesen |first4=J. L. |last5=Anderson |first5=I. B. |last6=Fink |first6=K. L. |last7=Collins |first7=K. M. |last8=Pendleton |first8=O. J. |last9=Messer |first9=C. J. }}</ref>
<ref name=nmu>{{citation|url=https://www.nmu.edu/mathandcomputerscience/adjunctcontingent-faculty|title=Adjunct/Contingent Faculty|publisher=Northern Michigan University Mathematics and Computer Science|accessdate=2018-12-01|archive-date=2019-08-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818193122/https://www.nmu.edu/mathandcomputerscience/adjunctcontingent-faculty|url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name=utexas>{{citation|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth903004/m1/8/|journal=The University of Texas System Cancer Center Newsletter|volume=26|issue=1|date=January–February 1981|title=New staff appointments—June through December 1980|page=8}}</ref>
<ref name=wc>WorldCat catalog entries for [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25620411 ''Periodic Regression Revisited''] and for [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2694449 ''Hypothesis Testing In The General Linear Model''], retrieved 2018-12-01.</ref>
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