International Day Of Women in Statistics and Data Science

Lara Lusa is a professor of Statistics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies of the University of Primorska, Slovenia and Institute for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her current research interests are related to the development and validation of predictive models in bio‐medicine, with particular attention to applications using high‐dimensional data and rare events. She is also interested in statistical programming, design of simulation studies, and teaching statistics. Beside the methodological research in statistics, she is also heavily involved as a statistical consultant to researchers in medicine.