Eileen Catherine King (born 1954) [1] is an American biostatistician specializing in the design and analysis of clinical trials. She is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati, in the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. [2]
King graduated from Regis College (Massachusetts) in 1976. She earned a master's degree from the University of Wyoming in 1980, and completed a Ph.D. in 1988 at Texas A&M University. [2] Her dissertation, A test for the equality of two regression curves based on kernel smoothers, was supervised by Jeffrey D. Hart and Thomas Wehrly. [1] [3]
She joined the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in 2009, after working in drug development for the pharmaceutical industry. [4]
King was the 2011 recipient of the H. O. Hartley Award of the Texas A&M University Department of Statistics, given to former students "for distinguished service to the discipline of statistics". [5] She was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2017. [6]