List of women in statistics
This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in statistics.[1][2]
A
- Edith Abbott (1876–1957), American economist, social worker, educator, and author
- Dorothy Adkins (1912–1975), psychologist concentrating on psychometrics
- Beatrice Aitchison (1908–1997), transportation economist who became the top woman in the United States Postal Service
- Deborah Ashby (1959–), British statistician who specialises in medical statistics and Bayesian statistics
B
- Rosemary A. Bailey (1947– ), British statistician who works in the design of experiments and the analysis of variance
- Nancy Bates, senior researcher at the United States Census Bureau
- Grace Bediako, former head of Ghana Statistical Service
- Lynne Billard, Australian-American AIDS researcher, president of American Statistical Association and International Biometric Society
- Sheila Bird (1952–), British biostatistician whose assessment of misuse of statistics led to statistical guidelines for medical journals
- Dorothy Brady (1903–1977), American professor of economics at the Wharton School
- Margaret K. Butler (1924–2013), statistician at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, developed software for nuclear simulations
C
- Kate Calder, American expert on spatiotemporal Bayesian modeling
- Ann Cartwright (1925–), explored issues with the use and perception of primary medical care in Britain
- Kathryn Chaloner (1954–2014), expert in Bayesian experimental design, worked on HIV, AIDS, infectious diseases, and women's health
- Enid Charles (1894–1972), British pioneer in demography and population statistics and expert on fertility rates
- Jie Chen, Chinese–American professor of biostatistics and epidemiology and expert on change detection
- Kate Claghorn (1864–1938), American sociologist, economist, statistician, legal scholar, and Progressive Era activist
- Clara Collet (1860–1948), British social reformer who collected statistical and descriptive evidence of life for working women and poor people
- Cathy A. Cowan, American economist and social scientist
- Gertrude Mary Cox (1900–1978), researcher on experimental design, president of the American Statistical Association
- Stella Cunliffe (1917–2012), British statistician, first female president of the Royal Statistical Society
D
- Florence Nightingale David (1909–1993), English statistician, winner of first Elizabeth L. Scott Award
- Annette Dobson, Australian researcher in biostatistics, epidemiology, longitudinal studies, and social determinants of health
- Vanja Dukic, American biostatistician who uses internet search patterns to track diseases
- Olive Jean Dunn (1915–2008), American statistician, contributed to the development of confidence intervals in biostatistics
- Karen Dunnell (1946–), Chief Executive of the UK Office for National Statistics and head of the Government Statistical Service
E
- Lynn Eberly, American researcher in longitudinal studies, medical imaging, and other forms of correlated data
- Ethel M. Elderton (1878–1954), British eugenics researcher
- Jane Elliott (1966–), British sociologist who uses longitudinal methods to explore issues of gender and employment
G
- Sara van de Geer, Dutch statistician, president of the Bernoulli Society
- Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), Austrian researcher on Fourier series, statistics, probability, and plasticity, refugee from Nazi Germany
- Yulia Gel, American expert in the nonparametric statistics of spatiotemporal data
- Lisa Goldberg, American mathematical finance scholar and statistician
- Rebecca Goldin, American director of the Statistical Assessment Service
- Selma Fine Goldsmith (1912–1962), American economic statistician who estimated personal income distribution
- Mary W. Gray (1938–), author in applied statistics and founding president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Cindy Greenwood, Canadian statistician, winner of Krieger–Nelson Prize
H
- Margaret Jarman Hagood (1907–1963), president of the Population Association of America
- Betz Halloran, biostatistician who studies causal inference and the biostatistics of infectious diseases
- Bronwyn Harch, Australian environmental statistician, applies mathematical sciences to agriculture, environment, health, manufacturing and energy
- Agnes M. Herzberg, first female president of the Statistical Society of Canada
- Heike Hofmann (1972–), researcher on interactive data visualization
I
- Lurdes Inoue, Japanese–Brazilian specialist in in Bayesian inference
K
- Mimi Kim, Harold and Muriel Block Chair in epidemiology and population health and head of biostatistics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Charlotte Kipling (1919–1992), English statistician, ichthyologist, and cryptographer
- Daphne Koller (1968–), Israeli–American author of text and online course on probabilistic graphical models, 2004 MacArthur Fellow
- Frauke Kreuter, German researcher on in survey methodology, sampling error, and observational error
L
- Nan Laird (1943– ), American biostatistician, discoverer of the EM algorithm
- Nicole Lazar (1966–), American–Canadian–Israeli researcher on empirical likelihood and functional neuroimaging
- Alice Lee (1858–1939), British researcher on biometrics
- Yoonkyung Lee, Korean–American expert on multicategory support vector machines
- Denise Lievesley, British director of Statistics at UNESCO, founder of the Institute for Statistics, and director of the UK Data Archive
M
- Eleanor Josephine Macdonald (1906–2007), American cancer epidemiologist who established the first cancer registry in the US
- Cathie Marsh (1951–1993), British sociologist and statistician who made a case for the use of surveys in sociology
- Jil Matheson, former National Statistician of the UK
- Kerrie Mengersen (1962–), Australian director of the Bayesian Research and Applications Group at Queensland University of Technology
- Ida Craven Merriam (1904–1997), American Social Security economist and statistician who founded the National Academy of Social Insurance
- Susan Murphy (1958–), applies statistical methods to clinical trials of treatments for chronic and relapsing medical conditions
N
One of Florence Nightingale's pioneering works in statistical graphics
- Ethel Newbold (1882–1933), English epidemiologist and statistician, namesake of Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics
- Helen Alma Newton Turner (1908–1995), Australian authority on sheep genetics
- Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), English founder of modern nursing, pioneer in information visualization and statistical graphics
- Janet L. Norwood (1923–2015), first female Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
O
- Mollie Orshansky (1915–2006), American economist and statistician, set poverty thresholds for household income
P
- Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn, Spanish statistician and geoscientist
- Dominique Picard (1953– ), French expert on the statistical applications of wavelets
- Elżbieta Pleszczyńska (1933– ), Polish statistician, disability rights activist
R
- Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, American expert on generalized linear mixed models with latent variables
- Nancy Reid (1952– ), Canadian theoretical statistician, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Statistical Society of Canada
- Sylvia Richardson, French expert on Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for spatial statistics
S
- Ester Samuel-Cahn (1933–), winner of the Israel Prize for her work in statistics
- Elizabeth Scott (1917–1988), applied statistics to astronomy and weather modification, promoted equal opportunity for women
- Rosedith Sitgreaves (1915–1992), American researcher on random matrices and Kendall's W
- Kirstine Smith (1878–1939), Danish statistician, created the field of optimal design of experiments
- Elizabeth A. Stuart, American researcher on causal inference and missing data in the statistics of mental health
- Catherine Sugar, American biostatistician who studies cluster analysis, covariance, and applications in medicine and psychiatry
T
- Irene Barnes Taeuber (1906–1974), American editor of Population Index who helped establish the science of demography
- Judith Tanur, American editor of the International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences
- Dorothy Swaine Thomas (1899–1977), population growth expert who became first female president of the American Sociological Association
U
- Jessica Utts (1952–), American parapsychologist, statistics educator, and president of the American Statistical Association
V
- Mary van Kleeck (1883–1972), American social feminist and proponent of scientific management and a planned economy
W
- Helen M. Walker (1891–1983), first female president of the American Statistical Association
- Katherine Wallman, Chief Statistician of the United States and president of the American Statistical Association
- Aryness Joy Wickens (1901–1991), American labor statistician and president of the American Statistical Association
- Ruth J. Williams, American probability theorist, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, member of National Academy of Sciences
- Hilda Mary Woods (1892–1971), British epidemiologist, first female lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Y
- Grace Y. Yi, Chinese–Canadian expert in event history analysis with missing data in medicine, engineering, and social science
- Bin Yu, Chinese–American statistician, president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
See also
References
- ↑ Golbeck, Amanda L.; Olkin, Ingram; Gel, Yulia R., eds. (2015), Leadership and Women in Statistics, CRC Press, ISBN 9781482236453.
- ↑ Stinnett, Sandra (May 1990), "Women in Statistics: Sesquicentennial Activities", The American Statistician, 44 (2): 74, doi:10.2307/2684131.
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