Paula Roberson

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Paula Karen Roberson is a biostatistician at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where she chairs the department of biostatistics. Her research interests include the design of clinical trials, nonparametric statistics, and feature selection. [1] She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 2015. [2]

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Education and career

Roberson graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and statistics. She completed her Ph.D. in biomathematics at the University of Washington in 1979. [1] Her dissertation, Distributional and Robustness Problems in Time-Space Disease Clustering, was supervised by Lloyd Fisher. [3]

She joined the University of Arkansas faculty in 1993, and became the founding chair of the biostatistics department there in 2004. [4]

Recognition

Roberson became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2000. [5] In 2014, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Paula K. Roberson, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences , retrieved 2018-12-19
  2. Past President Profiles, Caucus for Women in Statistics, 2016-03-31, retrieved 2018-12-19
  3. Paula Roberson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. 1 2 "Dr. Roberson named fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science", Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Faculty News, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, December 17, 2014, retrieved 2018-12-19
  5. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2019-04-25, retrieved 2018-12-19