Biography:Beth Dawson
Elizabeth Knight Dawson (also published as Dawson-Saunders) is a biostatistician and biostatistics textbook author.
Education and career
Dawson completed a Ph.D. in educational psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1977; her dissertation was The Sampling Distribution of The Canonical Redundancy Statistic.[1] She worked as a professor in the Department of Medical Humanities of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, where she was granted tenure in 1981.[2]
By 1990 she was working as a senior psychometrician in the National Board of Medical Examiners,[3] and by 1992 she had moved again to the American Board of Internal Medicine.[4] After returning to the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, she was chair of the 2000 Research in Medical Education Conference,[5] and chair of the Council of Sections of the American Statistical Association.[6]
Book
Dawson is the coauthor of the textbook Basic and Clinical Biostatistics (with Robert G. Trapp, Appleton & Lange, 1990).[7]
Recognition
Dawson was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1994.[8]
References
- ↑ Knight, Dawson (1977), "The Sampling Distribution of The Canonical Redundancy Statistic", IDEALS: Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- ↑ "Board of Trustees ratifies list, grants 62 faculty promotions", Daily Egyptian: 13, April 10, 1981, https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=de_April1981
- ↑ Author affiliation from Dawson-Saunders, Beth; Jones, Paul K.; Verhulst, Steven J. (May 1990), "The History of the Subsection on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences", The American Statistician 44 (2): 101–103, doi:10.2307/2684140
- ↑ Author affiliation from Feltovich, Paul J.; Coulson, Richard L.; Spiro, Rand J.; Dawson-Saunders, Beth K. (1992), "Knowledge Application and Transfer for Complex Tasks in Ill-Structured Domains: Implications for Instruction and Testing in Biomedicine", Advanced Models of Cognition for Medical Training and Practice, Springer, pp. 213–244, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-02833-9_12
- ↑ Research in Medical Education: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 30–November 1, 2000, Association of American Medical Colleges, 2000, https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED446595.pdf
- ↑ "Front matter", Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 25 (4), Winter 2000
- ↑ Reviews of Basic and Clinical Biostatistics:
- Levy, Paul S. (July 1993), "none", Annals of Internal Medicine 119 (2): 174, doi:10.7326/0003-4819-119-2-199307150-00032
- Murie, J. A. (July 1992), "none", British Journal of Surgery 79 (7): 719, doi:10.1002/bjs.1800790766
- Price, Wayne A. (April 1991), "none", The Journal of Pediatrics 118 (4): 560, doi:10.1016/s0022-3476(05)83379-7
- "none", Human Biology 66 (2): 351–354, April 1994
- Thompson, Simon (October 1991), "none", Statistics in Medicine 10 (10): 1636–1637, doi:10.1002/sim.4780101016
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2020-12-11
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