Dean read mathematics at the University of Southampton, and earned a bachelor's degree there in 1971. She completed a Ph.D. at Southampton in 1975.
She taught at The Open University (1975–1980) and at
the University of Texas at Austin (1978–1979) before joining the Ohio State faculty in 1980. Since 2003 she has also been an associate member of the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute. She retired from Ohio State and became a professor emeritus there in 2011.[1]
With Daniel Voss, Dean is the author of Design and Analysis of Experiments (Springer, 1999; 2nd ed., with Danel Draguljić, 2017).[3]
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Bose, Mausumi (December 2000), Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), 62 (3): 472–473, JSTOR25053159{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)