Janet D. Elashoff

Janet Dixon Elashoff is a retired American statistician, formerly the director of biostatistics for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center^[1] and professor of biomathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[2]

Early life[]

Janet Dixon was the daughter of mathematician and statistician Wilfrid Dixon.^[3] She completed her Ph.D. in statistics at Harvard University in 1966; her dissertation was Optimal Choice of Rater Teams.^[1][4]

Career[]

She became a faculty member in the Department of Education and Statistics at Stanford University.^[5] With educational psychologist Richard E. Snow, she is the author of Pygmalion Reconsidered: A Case Study in Statistical Inference (C. A. Jones Publishing, 1971), a book on how teacher expectations affect student learning.^[6] 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.^[7]

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.^[8]

She has been a fellow of the American Statistical Association since 1978,^[9] following in the steps of her father who was also a fellow.

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