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Elizabeth Knight Dawson (also published as Dawson-Saunders) is a biostatistician and biostatistics textbook author.

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Education and career

Dawson completed a Ph.D. in educational psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1977; her dissertation was The Sampling Distribution of The Canonical Redundancy Statistic. [1] She worked as a professor in the Department of Medical Humanities of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, where she was granted tenure in 1981. [2]

By 1990 she was working as a senior psychometrician in the National Board of Medical Examiners, [3] and by 1992 she had moved again to the American Board of Internal Medicine. [4] After returning to the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, she was chair of the 2000 Research in Medical Education Conference, [5] and chair of the Council of Sections of the American Statistical Association. [6]

Book

Dawson is the coauthor of the textbook Basic and Clinical Biostatistics (with Robert G. Trapp, Appleton & Lange, 1990). [7]

Recognition

Dawson was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1994. [8]

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References

  1. Knight, Dawson (1977), "The Sampling Distribution of The Canonical Redundancy Statistic", IDEALS: Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hdl:2142/65748
  2. "Board of Trustees ratifies list, grants 62 faculty promotions", Daily Egyptian, p. 13, April 10, 1981
  3. Author affiliation from Dawson-Saunders, Beth; Jones, Paul K.; Verhulst, Steven J. (May 1990), "The History of the Subsection on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences", The American Statistician, 44 (2): 101–103, doi:10.2307/2684140, JSTOR   2684140
  4. Author affiliation from Feltovich, Paul J.; Coulson, Richard L.; Spiro, Rand J.; Dawson-Saunders, Beth K. (1992), "Knowledge Application and Transfer for Complex Tasks in Ill-Structured Domains: Implications for Instruction and Testing in Biomedicine", Advanced Models of Cognition for Medical Training and Practice, Springer, pp. 213–244, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-02833-9_12
  5. Research in Medical Education: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 30–November 1, 2000 (PDF), Association of American Medical Colleges, 2000
  6. "Front matter", Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 25 (4), Winter 2000, JSTOR   1165219
  7. Reviews of Basic and Clinical Biostatistics:
  8. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2020-12-11