Isabel Elaine Allen is an American survey statistician and biostatistician who works in distance education, the theory of Likert scales, antibacterial treatments, and meta-analysis of medical trials.
[2] Allen majored in psychology at Skidmore College, graduating in 1970.
[1] As well as her academic work, Allen has helped to found several companies, including the Quahog Research Group, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Pondview Associates, StatSystems, and Bay View Analytics.
[4] Allen was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2004.
[5] She was the main statistical expert for an investigative journalism project concerning fair housing, "Long Island Divided",[6] which won the 2020 Edward R. Murrow Award of the Radio Television Digital News Association for a news documentary by a large digital news organization.