Leona Ruth Silver Aiken is an American President's Professor of psychology at Arizona State University.
She is the co-author of two widely used statistics textbooks, Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavior Sciences and Multiple Regression: Testing and interpreting interactions.
[2] In terms of substantive research, Aiken specializes in women's health protective behavior.
[2] An example of this two-stage process can be seen in one of her studies, where peer perception of middle schoolers was used to model high school success, followed by suggestions on how peer perception should be reflected on by both the students and their parents.
[3] In terms of methodological research, Leona Aiken specializes in models containing continuous variable interactions, which includes analysis of variance, multiple regression analysis, multivariate analysis, and structural equation modeling.