List of women in statistics

This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in statistics...

A Helen Abbey (1915–2001), American biostatistician known for prolific mentorship of students Edith Abbott (1876–1957), American economist, social worker, educator, and author Sarah Abramowitz (born 1967), American statistics educator and textbook author Sophie Achard (born 1977), French statistical neuroscientist Atinuke Olusola Adebanji, first female professor of statistics in Ghana Dorothy Adkins (1912–1975), psychologist concentrating on psychometrics Ana María Aguilera, Spanish expert on principal component analysis, functional data analysis, and categorical data Susan Ahmed (born 1946), American biostatistician and educational statistician Laura Ahtime, chief executive of the Seychelles National Bureau of Statistics Beatrice Aitchison (1908–1997), transportation economist who became the top woman in the United States Postal Service Martha Aliaga (1937–2011), Argentine statistics educator and president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics Betty Allan (1905–1952), Australian statistician and biometrician, first statistician at CSIRO Genevera Allen, American statistician, expert on interpretable learning, reproducibility, and the neuroscience of synesthesia I. Elaine Allen, American survey statistician and biostatistician Naomi Altman, Canadian–American biostatistician known for her work in kernel methods Garnet Anderson, American biostatistician, identified risks of postmenopausal hormone therapy Christine Anderson-Cook (born 1966), Canadian expert on design of experiments, reliability, and nuclear forensics Mariza de Andrade, Brazilian-American biostatistician known for her work in statistical genetics Rebecca Andridge, American expert on imputation of missing data and group-randomized trials Svetlana Antonovska (1952-2016), Macedonian sociologist and statistician, founder of contemporary statistics in North Macedonia Kellie Archer (born 1969), American biostatistician specializing in microarray analysis techniques Margaret Armstrong, Australian geostatistician and textbook author Arlene Ash, American statistician who works on risk adjustment in health services Jana Asher, American expert in the statistics of human rights and sexual violence Deborah Ashby (born 1959), British statistician who specialises in medical statistics and Bayesian statistics Susan Assmann (1956–2020), American discrete mathematician and biostatistician Marie Auger-Méthé, Canadian statistical ecologist, expert on the movement of polar and marine animals

B Julie E. Backer (1890–1977), Norwegian health and population statistician in Norway's Central Bureau of Statistics Anita K. Bahn (1920–1980), chief epidemiologist of Maryland Barbara A. Bailar, American statistician, president and executive director of the American Statistical Association Rosemary A. Bailey (born 1947), British statistician who works in the design of experiments and the analysis of variance Joan Bailey-Wilson (born 1953), American statistical geneticist Rose Baker, British physicist, mathematician, and statistician Huldah Bancroft (died 1966), American biostatistician and expert on tropical diseases Karen Bandeen-Roche, American biostatistician known for her research on aging Rina Foygel Barber, American statistician who studies graphical models, false discovery rates, and regularization Mildred Barnard (1908–2000), Australian biometrician, mathematician and statistician Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, American biostatistician specializing in brain tumors Pauline Barrieu, French financial statistician Kaye Basford, Australian statistician and biometrician who applies statistical methods to plant genetics Saonli Basu, Indian-American statistical geneticist Carmen Batanero, Spanish statistics educator Nancy Bates, senior researcher at the United States Census Bureau Mary Batcher, American tax statistician, chair of National Institute of Statistical Sciences Marijka Batterham, director of National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia M. J. Bayarri (1956–2014), Spanish Bayesian statistician, president of International Society for Bayesian Analysis Betsy Becker, American researcher on meta-analysis and educational psychometrics Laurel Beckett, American biostatistician, expert on Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases Grace Bediako, former head of Ghana Statistical Service Melissa Begg, American population health statistician and academic administrator Alexa Beiser, American biostatistician Andriëtte Bekker (born 1958), South African mathematical statistician Scarlett Bellamy, American biostatistician, expert on interventions in longitudinal behavioural modification trials Emma Benn, American biostatistician, performs causal inference on health disparities Helen Berg (1932–2010), American feminist economic statistician and mayor of Corvallis, Oregon Agnes Berger, Hungarian-American biostatistician Elza Berquó (1925–2026), Brazilian demographer Lisa Bersales, National Statistician of the Philippines Nicky Best, British statistician, expert on Bayesian inference Rebecca Betensky, biostatistician at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital Julia Bienias, American expert on the biostatistics of Alzheimer's disease Ayse Bilgin, Australian statistician and statistics educator, president-elect of International Association for Statistical Education Lynne Billard (born 1943), Australian-American AIDS researcher, president of American Statistical Association and International Biometric Society Nedret Billor, Turkish statistician, works in robust statistics and outlier detection Sheila Bird (born 1952), British biostatistician whose assessment of misuse of statistics led to statistical guidelines for medical journals Yvonne Bishop (died 2015), American expert in multivariate analysis who studied anaesthetics and air pollution Lenore E. Bixby (died 1994), American statistician who worked with the Social Security Administration and National Academy of Sciences Erin Blankenship, American statistics educator Carol Joyce Blumberg, American statistician interested in survey methodology, design of experiments, and statistics education Eileen Boardman (c. 1942 – 2018), American statistician, applied statistical quality measures to solar power Mary Ellen Bock, first female full professor in statistics and first female chair of statistics at Purdue University Graciela Boente, Argentine mathematical statistician known for her research in robust statistics Małgorzata Bogdan, Polish mathematical statistician Jane M. Booker, American statistician, expert in expert elicitation and fuzzy logic Connie M. Borror (1966–2016), American statistician and industrial engineer interested in quality control and forensic toxicology Bertha C. Boschulte (1906–2004), Virgin Islands educator, women's rights activist, statistician and politician Claire McKay Bowen, American statistician, expert in data privacy Kimiko O. Bowman (1927–2019), Japanese-American statistician, approximated the distribution of maximum likelihood estimators, advocated for people with disabilities Veronica Bowman, British military statistician known for her work aggregating COVID-19 predictions Barbara Boyes (circa 1932 – 1981), American government survey statistician Jelena Bradic, Serbian-American expert on causal inference and robust and high-dimensional statistics Dorothy Brady (1903–1977), American professor of economics at the Wharton School Amy Braverman, American statistician, analyzes remote sensing data and climate models Erica Brittain, American biostatistician, expert on clinical trials and hypothesis testing Donna Brogan (born 1939), American statistician who works in mental health statistics and analysis of complex survey data Eileen Brooke (1905–1989), British statistician and health policy professional Jennifer Brown, New Zealand environmental statistician, president of the New Zealand Statistical Association Cavell Brownie, Jamaican-American expert on wildlife statistics and capture-recapture methods Laurence Broze (born 1960), Belgian applied mathematician, statistician, and economist Babette Brumback, American biostatistician, expert on causal inference Antonella Buccianti (born 1960), Italian geostatistician, expert on compositional data Caitlin E. Buck (born 1964), British archaeologist and statistician known for her work in radiocarbon dating Florentina Bunea (born 1966), Romanian statistician interested in machine learning, empirical processes, and high-dimensional statistics Lynne Butler (born 1955), American combinatorialist and mathematical statistician Margaret K. Butler (1924–2013), statistician at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, developed software for nuclear simulations Cristina Butucea, French statistician known for her work on non-parametric statistics, density estimation, and deconvolution Christine Bycroft, New Zealand statistician and demographer

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Jianwen Cai, Chinese-American biostatistician, expert on recurrent event analysis Kate Calder, American expert on spatiotemporal Bayesian modeling Marion Campbell, Scottish medical statistician and academic administrator Violet Cane (1916–2008), British expert on statistics and stochastic processes, first woman professor in University of Manchester Faculty of Science Ann R. Cannon, American statistics educator Eva Cantoni (born 1970), Swiss robust statistician, president of Swiss Federal Statistics Committee Jing Cao, Chinese-American statistician, expert in Bayesian methods, clinical trials, text analysis, and statistics of wine tasting Lynda Carlson (born 1943), American government statistician, director of National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics Alexandra Carpentier (born 1987), French mathematical statistician and machine learning researcher Peggy G. Carr, American expert on educational assessment Alicia L. Carriquiry, Uruguayan statistician, applies Bayesian statistics to nutrition, genomics, forensics, and traffic safety Mavis B. Carroll (1917–2009), American statistician who pioneered the industrial use of statistics at General Foods Carol S. Carson, American economic statistician, director of Bureau of Economic Analysis, director of statistics for International Monetary Fund Ann Cartwright (born 1925), explored issues with the use and perception of primary medical care in Britain Ana Casís, Panamanian sociologist, statistician, and demographer Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Turkish statistics educator known for her open source textbooks Kathryn Chaloner (1954–2014), expert in Bayesian experimental design, worked on HIV, AIDS, infectious diseases, and women's health Beth Chance (born 1968), American statistics educator Anne Chao, Taiwanese environmental statistician known for her work on mark and recapture methods Enid Charles (1894–1972), British pioneer in demography and population statistics and expert on fertility rates Helen C. Chase, president of Statistics Section of American Public Health Association Valérie Chavez-Demoulin, Swiss expert on extreme events and risk management Cathy Woan-Shu Chen, Taiwanese statistician interested in Bayesian methods and economic statistics Jie Chen, Chinese–American professor of biostatistics and epidemiology and expert on change detection Jinbo Chen, Chinese-American biostatistician and epidemiologist, expert on two-phase studies Debbie Cheng, American biostatistician, researches applied statistics and clinical trial design Ming-Yen Cheng, Chinese statistician specializing in nonparametric regression Amanda Chetwynd, British combinatorist and spatial statistician Francesca Chiaromonte, Italian statistician, expert on statistical genetics and dimensionality reduction Christy Chuang-Stein, Taiwanese-American academic and pharmaceutical industry biostatistician