Paula Roberson

Paula Karen Roberson is a biostatistician at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where she chairs the department of biostatistics. Her research interests include the design of clinical trials, nonparametric statistics, and feature selection.^[1] She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 2015.^[2]

Education and career

Roberson graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and statistics. She completed her Ph.D. in biomathematics at the University of Washington in 1979.^[1] Her dissertation, Distributional and Robustness Problems in Time-Space Disease Clustering, was supervised by Lloyd Fisher.^[3] She joined the University of Arkansas faculty in 1993, and became the founding chair of the biostatistics department there in 2004.^[4]

Recognition

Roberson became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2000.^[5] In 2014, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.^[4]