J. Lynn Palmer is an American biostatistician known for her research on missing data and on treatment of cancer.
[1] Palmer studied sociology as an undergraduate at Oklahoma State University, earned a bachelor's degree there in 1976, and stayed on for a master's degree in 1978.
She completed her Ph.D. in biometry in 1988, at the University of Texas School of Public Health.
[1] She worked at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for many years, and in 2013 became director of programs for the American Statistical Association.
[1] In 2010 Palmer was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.