Eileen King

Eileen Catherine King (born 1954)[1] is an American biostatistician specializing in the design and analysis of clinical trials. She is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati, in the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.[2]

Education and career

King graduated from Regis College (Massachusetts) in 1976. She earned a master's degree from the University of Wyoming in 1980, and completed a Ph.D. in 1988 at Texas A&M University.[2] Her dissertation, A test for the equality of two regression curves based on kernel smoothers, was supervised by Jeffrey D. Hart and Thomas Wehrly.[1][3]

She joined the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in 2009, after working in drug development for the pharmaceutical industry.[4]

Recognition

King was the 2011 recipient of the H. O. Hartley Award of the Texas A&M University Department of Statistics, given to former students "for distinguished service to the discipline of statistics".[5] She was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2017.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b King, Eileen Catherine (1988), A test for the equality of two regression curves based on kernel smoothers (PhD thesis), Texas A&M University, ProQuest 303650333, retrieved 2024-09-28
  2. ^ a b "Eileen C. King, PhD", Staff biographies, Cincinnati Children's, retrieved 2024-09-28
  3. ^ Eileen King at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Changing the world with statistics" (PDF), Statistics Former Student Network Webinar Series (Seminar announcement and speaker biography), Texas A&M University Statistics, retrieved 2024-09-28
  5. ^ H. O. Hartley Award, Texas A&M University Statistics, retrieved 2024-09-28
  6. ^ ASA Fellows, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2024-09-28