Janis E. Johnston (born 1957) is an American statistician, sociologist, and book author known for her work on permutation tests in statistics. Johnston earned a Ph.D. in 2006 from Colorado State University, and works as a social science analyst for the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Her books include: A Chronicle of Permutation Statistical Methods: 1920–2000, and Beyond (with Kenneth J. Berry and Paul W. Mielke Jr., Springer, 2014) Inequality: Social Class and Its Consequences (edited with D. Stanley Eitzen, Paradigm Publishers, 2007, and Routledge, 2015) Permutation Statistical Methods: An Integrated Approach (with Kenneth J. Berry and Paul W. Mielke Jr., Springer, 2016) The Measurement of Association: A Permutation Statistical Approach (with Kenneth J. Berry and Paul W. Mielke Jr., Springer, 2018) A Primer of Permutation Statistical Methods (with Kenneth J. Berry and Paul W. Mielke Jr., Springer, 2019)

References Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-02-19

Panelist biography from M.A. and Ph.D. Alumni Panel: Non-Academia Careers in the Social Sciences, Colorado State University Department of Sociology, March 29, 2019, accessed 2019-11-24.

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