Peter A. Lachenbruch
Peter Anthony Lachenbruch was an American statistician. He was professor emeritus at Oregon State University. He had previously worked at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration where he was director of the division of biostatistics. He was a fellow and former president of the American Statistical Association.
Education
Lachenbruch earned his BA in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles and his MS in mathematics from Lehigh University. He earned his PhD from UCLA in 1965. He wrote his thesis, Estimation of Error Rates in Discriminant Analysis under the tutelage of M. Ray Mickey.Career
After completing his PhD, Lachenbruch held a number of academic positions at the University of North Carolina, University of Iowa and UCLA. He was chair of biostatistics in the school of public health at UCLA. In 1994 Lachenbruch joined CBER where he was Chief, Biostatistics, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology from 1994 to 1999 and then Director, Division of Biostatistics. After his career at the FDA, Lachenbruch joined the Department of Public Health, Oregon State University in 2006, where he stayed until his retirement.During his career, he wrote a text on discriminant analysis and published over 200 refereed articles.
In addition to his academic and government appointments, Lachenbruch was president of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society, of the American Statistical Association and of the Western North American Region of the International Biometrics Society.