Beth Dawson

This article is about the American statistician. For the New Zealand artist, see Ducklingmonster.

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]