Paula Roberson
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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.{{r|profile}}
She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 2015.{{r|cwstat}}
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.{{r|profile}}
Her dissertation, Distributional and Robustness Problems in Time-Space Disease Clustering, was supervised by Lloyd Fisher.{{r|mg}} She joined the University of Arkansas faculty in 1993, and became the founding chair of the biostatistics department there in 2004.{{r|aaas}}
Recognition
Roberson became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2000.{{r|fasa}} In 2014, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.{{r|aaas}}
References
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{{citation|url=https://publichealth.uams.edu/2014/12/17/dr-roberson-named-fellow-by-the-american-association-for-the-advancement-of-science/|title=Dr. Roberson named fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science|date=December 17, 2014|work=Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Faculty News|publisher=University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences|accessdate=2018-12-19}}
{{citation|url=https://cwstat.org/about/people/governing-council/past-president-profiles/|title=Past President Profiles|publisher=Caucus for Women in Statistics|accessdate=2018-12-19|date=2016-03-31}}
{{citation|url=https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|title=ASA Fellows list|publisher=American Statistical Association|accessdate=2018-12-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425013824/https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|archive-date=2019-04-25|url-status=dead}}
{{citation|url=https://biostatistics.uams.edu/faculty-and-staff/paula-roberson/|title=Paula K. Roberson, Ph.D.|publisher=University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences|accessdate=2018-12-19}}
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Category:American statisticians
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Category:University of Washington alumni
Category:University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences faculty
Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science