Elizabeth Knight Dawson (also published as Dawson-Saunders) is a

biostatistician Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experimen ...

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''. She worked as a professor in the Department of Medical Humanities of the

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Southern Illinois University School of Medicine is a medical school located in Springfield, the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois. It is part of the Southern Illinois University system, which includes a campus in Edwardsville as well as the ...

, where she was granted tenure in 1981. By 1990 she was working as a senior psychometrician in the National Board of Medical Examiners, and by 1992 she had moved again to the American Board of Internal Medicine. After returning to the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, she was chair of the 2000 Research in Medical Education Conference, and chair of the Council of Sections of the American Statistical Association.

Book

Dawson is the coauthor of the textbook ''Basic and Clinical Biostatistics'' (with Robert G. Trapp, Appleton & Lange, 1990).

Recognition

Dawson was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1994.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dawson, Beth Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American statisticians American women statisticians University of Illinois College of Education alumni Southern Illinois University faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association