I. Elaine Allen
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Isabel Elaine Allen | |
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| Alma mater | Skidmore College University of Evansville Cornell University (PhD) |
| Awards | Edward R. Murrow Award (2020) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
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Isabel Elaine Allen is an American survey statistician and biostatistician who works in distance education, the theory of Likert scales, antibacterial treatments, and meta-analysis of medical trials. She is a professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco,[1] and a professor emeritus of statistics at Babson College.[2]
Allen majored in psychology at Skidmore College, graduating in 1970. She earned a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Evansville in 1975, and completed her Ph.D. in statistics at Cornell University in 1979.[3]
She took a faculty position at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania even before completing her doctorate,[3] and also held faculty positions at the Medical College of Pennsylvania[4] and Rutgers University prior to her position at Babson College.[2] She also taught at University of California, San Francisco.[1]
As well as her academic work, Allen has helped to found several companies, including the Quahog Research Group, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Pondview Associates, StatSystems, and Bay View Analytics.[4]