Janet D. Elashoff

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Janet D. Elashoff
Born
Janet Dixon
NationalityUSA
Alma mater
Known for nQuery Advisor
Scientific career
Institutions Stanford University
Thesis Optimal Choice of Rater Teams (1966)
Parent

Janet D. Elashoff is a retired American statistician, formerly the director of biostatistics for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center [1] and professor of biomathematics at UCLA.

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Early life

Janet Dixon was the daughter of mathematician and statistician Wilfrid Dixon. [2] She completed her Ph.D. in statistics at Harvard University in 1966; her dissertation was Optimal Choice of Rater Teams. [1] [3]

Career

She became a faculty member in the Department of Education and Statistics at Stanford University. [4] With educational psychologist Richard E. Snow, she co-authored Pygmalion Reconsidered: A Case Study in Statistical Inference (C. A. Jones Publishing, 1971), a book on how teacher expectations affect student learning. [5] 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. [6]

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. [7]

She has been a Fellow of the American Statistical Association since 1978, [8] following in the steps of her father who was also a Fellow of the ASA.

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References

  1. 1 2 Harvard Statistics PhD Alumni, Harvard Statistics, retrieved 2017-10-24
  2. W. J. Dixon Award for Excellence in Statistical Consulting, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-10-24
  3. Janet D. Elashoff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Member of the Consensus Development Panel, Journal of the American Statistical Association 67 (338): 478, doi : 10.2307/2284410
  5. Review of Pygmalion Reconsidered: John Lewis (September 1972), Journal of Teacher Education 23 (3): 409–410, doi:10.1177/002248717202300337.
  6. Fienberg, Stephen E.; Hoaglin, David C.; Kruskal, William H.; Tanur, Judith M., 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
  7. 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
  8. ASA Fellows, Caucus for Women in Statistics, March 29, 2016, retrieved 2017-10-24