Beth Dawson

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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

  1. ^ 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, hdl:2142/65748
  2. ^ "Board of Trustees ratifies list, grants 62 faculty promotions", Daily Egyptian, p. 13, April 10, 1981
  3. ^ 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, JSTOR 2684140
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ Research in Medical Education: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 30–November 1, 2000 (PDF), Association of American Medical Colleges, 2000
  6. ^ "Front matter", Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 25 (4), Winter 2000, JSTOR 1165219
  7. ^ Reviews of Basic and Clinical Biostatistics:
  8. ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2020-12-11