Paula King Norwood is a retired American biostatistician who worked in the pharmaceutical industry on statistical aspects of drug development and clinical trials.
[1] 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.
[1] She served as chair of the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association in 1986.
[3] Norwood was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1994.