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