Dionne L. Price (29 August 1971 – 22 February 2024)[1] was an American statistician and first African-American president of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the world's largest professional body representing statisticians.
[2] Her division provided statistical advice "used in the regulation of anti-infective, anti-viral, ophthalmology, and transplant drug products".
Her dissertation, Survival Models for Heterogeneous Populations with Cure, was supervised by Amita Manatunga,[5] and with it she became the first African-American to earn a doctorate in biostatistics at Emory.
[4] Price was the keynote speaker at StatFest 2016, a one-day conference at Howard University organized by the ASA Committee on Minorities in Statistics to encourage statistical students from underrepresented groups.
She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).