mathematics

Sue Leurgans

Sue Leurgans is a mathematics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Sue Leurgans rather than just read about it. In short: Sue Ellen Leurgans is a biostatistician known for her work on disorders of human movement, including those caused by occupational injury and Parkinson's disease. She is a professor of neurological sciences at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

Key takeaways

Sue Leurgans belongs to mathematics; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Sue Leurgans to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Sue Leurgans from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Sue Ellen Leurgans is a biostatistician known for her work on disorders of human movement, including those caused by occupational injury and Parkinson's disease. She is a professor of neurological sciences at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Leurgans graduated in statistics from Princeton University, and earned her Ph.D. in statistics in 1978 from Stanford University. Her dissertation, Asymptotic Distribution Theory in Generalized Isotonic Regression, was supervised by Thomas W. Sager. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington. Leurgans is one of the authors of the 2007 revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale. She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 1990. She is married to physicist Cosmas Zachos.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Sue Leurgans

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Sue Leurgans claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In mathematics, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Sue Leurgans before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Sue Leurgans ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Sue Leurgans

In research: Sue Leurgans appears in mathematics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Sue Leurgans in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Sue Leurgans is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics American statistician stubs, American statisticians, Biostatisticians, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Sue Leurgans outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Sue Leurgans in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Sue Leurgans means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Sue Leurgans out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Sue Leurgans in simple terms?

Why does Sue Leurgans matter?

Because it connects several mathematics ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Sue Leurgans?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Sue Leurgans.