Janet D. Elashoff

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

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.

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.

References

1. Harvard Statistics PhD Alumni, Harvard Statistics, archived from the original on 2017-10-17, 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, archived from the original on 2017-10-25, retrieved 2017-10-24