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DeutschPaula Norwood
Paula King Norwood is a retired American biostatistician who worked in the pharmaceutical industry on statistical aspects of drug development and clinical trials. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a former chair of the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association.[1]
Education and career
[edit]Norwood attended Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Arkansas, and graduated in 1968 from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas with a major in mathematics. She has a master's degree in biostatistics from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,[1] and completed her Ph.D. in 1974 at Virginia Tech; her dissertation, Statistical Analysis of Association between Disease and Genotype, was supervised by Klaus Hinkelmann.[2]
Norwood founded the statistics department of Ortho Pharmaceutical, and became Vice President of Global Biostatistics and Data Processing for Johnson & Johnson.[1] She served as chair of the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association in 1986.[3]
Recognition
[edit]Norwood was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1994.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Paula Norwood", Member details, Arkansas Academy of Computing, retrieved 2020-10-17
- ^ Paula Norwood at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ The History of the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association, ASA Biopharmaceutical Section, retrieved 2020-10-17
- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2020-10-17
External links
[edit]- Paula King Norwood (interview), Arkansas Academy of Computing – via YouTube
