Violet Rosina Cane (31 January 1916 – 27 June 2008) was a Cambridge-educated statistician who was the first woman appointed as a professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Manchester. She is known for her work in classical statistics and stochastic processes.
Biography Cane was born in Camberwell, London, the daughter of Tubal George Cane and Anne Louisa (Lansdell) Cane. 1938: Graduated from Newnham College 1942-45: Joined the Foreign Office and worked at Bletchley Park 1947: Elected Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society 1948: Awarded a diploma in mathematical statistics from Cambridge, and appointed statistician to the MRC Applied Psychology Unit at Cambridge. 1957: Elected Fellow of Newnham College 1959: Founding member of the Experimental Psychology Society 1960: Appointed University Lecturer in the Statistical Laboratory at Cambridge. 1971: Appointed Professor of Mathematical Statistics at University of Manchester
She retired from Manchester in 1981. She has been described as "one of the biggest names in the subject [of mathematics]" at Manchester in the 20th century.
Selected publications 1959. "Behaviour Sequences as Semi-Markov Chains," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B
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