Janet D. Elashoff is a retired American statistician, formerly the director of biostatistics for

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and professor of biomathematics at

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Early life

Janet Dixon was the daughter of mathematician and statistician

Wilfrid Dixon Wilfrid Joseph Dixon (December 13, 1915 – September 20, 2008) was an American mathematician and statistician. He made notable contributions to nonparametric statistics, statistical education and experimental design. A native of Portland, ...

. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics at

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in 1966; her dissertation was ''Optimal Choice of Rater Teams''.

Career

She became a faculty member in the Department of Education and Statistics at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

. Member of the Consensus Development Panel, ''Journal of the American Statistical Association'' 67 (338): 478, 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. She served on the Analysis Advisory Committee of the

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beginning in the mid-1970s, and chaired the committee in 1982. 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. She has been a

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since 1978, following in the steps of her father who was also a Fellow of the ASA.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Elashoff, Janet D. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women statisticians Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Stanford University faculty University of California, Los Angeles faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association 21st-century American women