Biography:Janet D. Elashoff
Janet Dixon Elashoff is a retired American statistician, formerly the director of biostatistics for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center[1] and professor of biomathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles.[2]
Janet Dixon was the daughter of mathematician and statistician Wilfrid Dixon.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in statistics at Harvard University in 1966; her dissertation was Optimal Choice of Rater Teams.[1][4]
She became a faculty member in the Department of Education and Statistics at Stanford University.[5] With educational psychologist Richard E. Snow, she is the author of Pygmalion Reconsidered: A Case Study in Statistical Inference (C. A. Jones Publishing, 1971), a book on how teacher expectations affect student learning.[6] She served on the Analysis Advisory Committee of the National Assessment of Educational Progress beginning in the mid-1970s, and chaired the committee in 1982.[7]
While at UCLA and Cedars-Sinai, she wrote the program nQuery Advisor, widely used to estimate the sample size requirements for pharmaceutical testing, and spun off the company Statistical Solutions LLC to commercialize it.[8]
She has been a fellow of the American Statistical Association since 1978,[9] following in the steps of her father who was also a fellow.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harvard Statistics PhD Alumni, Harvard Statistics, http://www.stat.harvard.edu/alumni/PhD.html, retrieved 2017-10-24
- ↑ Author affiliation from Connecticut Medicine 54 (1): 26, January 1990, [1]
- ↑ W. J. Dixon Award for Excellence in Statistical Consulting, American Statistical Association, http://amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/W-J-Dixon-Award-for-Excellence-in-Statistical-Consulting.aspx, retrieved 2017-10-24
- ↑ Janet D. Elashoff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Author affiliation from Journal of the American Statistical Association 67 (338): 478, doi:10.2307/2284410
- ↑ Review of Pygmalion Reconsidered: John Lewis (September 1972), Journal of Teacher Education 23 (3): 409–410, doi:10.1177/002248717202300337.
- ↑ Fienberg, Stephen E.; Hoaglin, David C.; Kruskal, William H. et al., eds. (2012), A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller's Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy, Springer Series in Statistics, Springer, pp. 223–224, ISBN 9781461233848, https://books.google.com/books?id=WyLoBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA223
- ↑ Chernick, Michael R.; Friis, Robert H. (2003), Introductory Biostatistics for the Health Sciences: Modern Applications Including Bootstrap, Wiley series in probability and statistics, John Wiley & Sons, p. 360, ISBN 9780471458654, https://books.google.com/books?id=QRwuz6yA97oC&pg=PA360
- ↑ ASA Fellows, Caucus for Women in Statistics, March 29, 2016, https://cwstat.org/about/people/asa-fellows/, retrieved 2017-10-24
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