Marjorie A Pett

Dr. Marge Pett is a Research Professor in the College of Nursing, having been on the faculty since 1980. She is the author of numerous articles and presentations related both to her previously federally funded research on family interaction in married and divorced families, her current interests in developing effective healthy lifestyle interventions for persons with intellectual disabilities and their families, development of patient-ofocused pain care measures, as well as her interests in...See more

Dr. Marge Pett is a Research Professor in the College of Nursing, having been on the faculty since 1980. She is the author of numerous articles and presentations related both to her previously federally funded research on family interaction in married and divorced families, her current interests in developing effective healthy lifestyle interventions for persons with intellectual disabilities and their families, development of patient-ofocused pain care measures, as well as her interests in statistics. Her two textbooks, Nonparametric Statistics for Health Care Research and Making Sense of Factor Analysis, have received much praise from the health care community. Marge has a strong commitment to facilitationg the practical application of statistics in the social, behavioral, and biological sciences, especially among practitioners in health care settings. She has taught various statistics courses to doctoral students from a variety of disciplines, both at the beginning and advanced levels. Marge has been married for more than 40 years to the same person, has two adult children and 2-3/4 grandchildren. When she is not teaching or doing research, Marge can be found on the tennis courts, various and sundry golf courses, studying Italian or wandering the streets of the wonderful cities of Italia. See less