Janet D. Elashoff

Janet Dixon Elashoff is a retired American statistician, formerly the director of biostatistics for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center[1] and professor of biomathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles.[2]

Janet Dixon was the daughter of mathematician and statistician Wilfrid Dixon.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in statistics at Harvard University in 1966; her dissertation was Optimal Choice of Rater Teams.[1][4]

She became a faculty member in the Department of Education and Statistics at Stanford University.[5] With educational psychologist Richard E. Snow, she is the author of Pygmalion Reconsidered: A Case Study in Statistical Inference (C. A. Jones Publishing, 1971), a book on how teacher expectations affect student learning.[6] She served on the Analysis Advisory Committee of the National Assessment of Educational Progress beginning in the mid-1970s, and chaired the committee in 1982.[7]

While at UCLA and Cedars-Sinai, she wrote the program nQuery Advisor, widely used to estimate the sample size requirements for pharmaceutical testing, and spun off the company Statistical Solutions LLC to commercialize it.[8]

She has been a fellow of the American Statistical Association since 1978,[9] following in the steps of her father who was also a fellow.