List of women in statistics

This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in statistics.[1][2]

A
  • Helen Abbey (1915–2001), American biostatistician known for prolific mentorship of students
  • Edith Abbott (1876–1957), American economist, social worker, educator, and author
  • Dorothy Adkins (1912–1975), psychologist concentrating on psychometrics
  • 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
  • Naomi Altman, Canadian–American biostatistician known for her work in kernel methods
  • 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
  • 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

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
  • Pauline Barrieu, French financial statistician
  • Kaye Basford, Australian statistician and biometrician who applies statistical methods to plant genetics
  • Nancy Bates, senior researcher at the United States Census Bureau
  • Mary Batcher, American tax statistician, chair of National Institute of Statistical Sciences
  • 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
  • Grace Bediako, former head of Ghana Statistical Service
  • Andriëtte Bekker (born 1958), South African mathematical statistician
  • Helen Berg (1932–2010), American feminist economic statistician and mayor of Corvallis, Oregon
  • Agnes Berger, Hungarian-American biostatistician
  • 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 statistian, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • K. O. Bowman (1927–2019), Japanese-American statistician, approximated the distribution of maximum likelihood estimators, advocated for people with disabilities
  • Dorothy Brady (1903–1977), American professor of economics at the Wharton School
  • Amy Braverman, American statistician, analyzes remote sensing data and climate models
  • Donna Brogan (born 1939), American statistician who works in mental health statistics and analysis of complex survey data
  • 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

C
Kate Claghorn became the first female ASA Fellow.
  • Kate Calder, American expert on spatiotemporal Bayesian modeling
  • Ann R. Cannon, American statistics educator
  • 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
  • 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
  • Amanda Chetwynd, British combinatorist and spatial statistician
  • Francesca Chiaromonte, Italian statistician, expert on statistical genetics and dimensionality reduction
  • Marcia Ciol, Brazilian-American expert on comorbidity
  • Constance F. Citro (born 1942), American political scientist and statistician, director of the Committee on National Statistics
  • Gerda Claeskens, Belgian expert on model selection and model averaging
  • Kate Claghorn (1864–1938), American sociologist, economist, statistician, legal scholar, and Progressive Era activist
  • Cynthia Clark (born 1942), American government statistician, executive director of Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
  • Virginia A. Clark (1928–2018), American biostatistician and statistics textbook author
  • Merlise A. Clyde, American statistician known for her work in model averaging for Bayesian statistics
  • Clara Collet (1860–1948), British social reformer who collected statistical and descriptive evidence of life for working women and poor people
  • Katharine Coman (1857-1915), American historian, economist, sociologist, educator, and social activist, first woman to teach statistics in the US
  • Delores Conway, American statistician, expert on real estate markets
  • Dianne Cook, Australian editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
  • 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
  • Adele Cutler, English-born New Zealand and American statistician who developed archetypal analysis and random forests
  • Claudia Czado, German expert on copulas, vines, and their applications in statistical finance
  • Veronica Czitrom, Mexican-American statistician, applied statistics to the quality control of semiconductor manufacturing

D
  • Dorota Dabrowska, Polish statistician known for her research on counting processes and survival analysis
  • Estelle Bee Dagum, Argentine–Canadian–Italian expert in time series and seasonal adjustment
  • Angela Dale (born 1945) British statistician known for secondary analysis of government survey data
  • Sarah Darby, British epidemiologist and medical statistician
  • Nairanjana Dasgupta, Indian statistician, expert on large-scale multiple testing and on the statistics of apple growth
  • Susmita Datta, Indian–American biostatistician and Bengali folk musician
  • Florence Nightingale David (1909–1993), English statistician, winner of first Elizabeth L. Scott Award
  • Marie Davidian, American biostatistician known for her work in longitudinal data analysis and precision medicine
  • Beth Dawson, American biostatistician and biostatistics textbook author
  • Besse Day (1889–1986), American statistician who pioneered the use of design of experiments in engineering
  • Angela Dean, British expert in design of experiments
  • Charmaine Dean (born 1958), statistician from Trinidad, president of International Biometric Society and Statistical Society of Canada
  • Charlotte Deane (born 1975), statistician and bioinformatics researcher focused on the protein structure of antibodies
  • Aurore Delaigle, Australian expert in nonparametric statistics, deconvolution and functional data analysis
  • Elizabeth DeLong, American biostatistician interested in outcomes research and comparative effectiveness
  • Jill DeMatteis, American statistician specializing in survey methodology
  • Rebecca DerSimonian, American biostatistician, introduced random-effects meta-analysis and its application in clinical trials
  • Jill Dever, American survey statistician
  • Susan J. Devlin, American statistician, expert on robust statistics and local regression
  • María del Pilar Díaz, Argentine statistician
  • Marie Diener-West, American statistician, ophthalmologist, and expert on clinical trials
  • E. Jacquelin Dietz, American statistics educator, founding editor of the Journal of Statistics Education
  • Susanne Ditlevsen, Danish mathematical biologist and biostatistician
  • Kim-Anh Do, Australian biostatistician of Vietnamese descent at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Lori E. Dodd, American biostatistician specializing in clinical trial methodology
  • Annette Dobson (born 1945), Australian researcher in biostatistics, epidemiology, longitudinal studies, and social determinants of health
  • Rebecca Doerge, American researcher in statistical bioinformatics, known for her research on quantitative traits
  • Francesca Dominici, Italian statistician who performs collaborative research on projects that combine big data with health policy and climate change
  • Christl Donnelly, uses statistics and biomathematics to study epidemiological patterns of infectious diseases
  • Sandrine Dudoit, applies statistics to microarray and genetic data, co-founder of Bioconductor project
  • 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 (born 1946), Chief Executive of the UK Office for National Statistics and head of the Government Statistical Service
  • Debbie Dupuis, Canadian statistician, applies decision science and robust statistics to statistical finance and environmental statistics
  • Josée Dupuis, Canadian and American biostatistician, president of International Genetic Epidemiology Society

E
  • Lynn Eberly, American researcher in longitudinal studies, medical imaging, and other forms of correlated data
  • Constance van Eeden (born 1927), Dutch nonparameteric statistician who contributed to the development of statistics in Canada
  • Nathalie Eisenbaum, French probability theorist
  • Janet D. Elashoff, director of biostatistics for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  • Ethel M. Elderton (1878–1954), British eugenics researcher
  • Marie D. Eldridge (1926–2009), director of statistics and analysis at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  • Susan S. Ellenberg, American biostatistician, expert in the design of clinical trials and in the safety of medical devices
  • Jane Elliott (born 1966), British sociologist who uses longitudinal methods to explore issues of gender and employment
  • Lila Elveback (1915–2004), American biostatistician, founder of American College of Epidemiology
  • Kathy Ensor, American statistician who discovered correlations between ozone and heart attacks
  • Sylvia Esterby, Canadian environmental statistician, founder of the International Environmetrics Society
  • Alison Etheridge FRS (born 1964), English researcher in theoretical population genetics and mathematical ecology

F
  • Yingying Fan, American mathematical statistician and data scientist
  • Polly Feigl, American biostatistician, expert on survival distributions and cancer clinical trials
  • Eleanor Feingold, American statistical geneticist
  • Rachel Fewster, British and New Zealand environmental statistician and statistical ecologist
  • Carol Fitz-Gibbon (1938–2017), British expert and activist in education evaluation
  • Evelyn Fix (1904–1965), American statistician who invented the nearest neighbor method
  • Nancy Flournoy (born 1947), American statistician known for the design of adaptive clinical trials and for the graft-versus-tumor effect in bone marrow transplants
  • Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter (born 1959), Austrian statistician working in Bayesian inference, president of International Society for Bayesian Analysis
  • Rongwei Fu, biostatistician who uses meta-analysis to understand disease patterns
  • Montserrat Fuentes, Spanish statistician who applies spatial analysis to atmospheric science
  • Cathy Furlong, American statistician active in volunteer work for statistical organizations, president of Statistics Without Borders

G
  • Linda Gage, California state demographer
  • Nina Gantert, Swiss and German probability theorist
  • Martha M. Gardner, American statistician associated with GE Global Research
  • Joan Garfield, American educational psychologist specializing in statistics education
  • Ursula Gather (born 1953), German robust statistician, rector of TU Dortmund
  • Geneviève Gauthier (born 1967), Canadian financial mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist
  • Sara van de Geer (born 1958), 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
  • Nancy Geller (born 1944), director of biostatistics research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  • Maria-Pia Geppert (1907–1997), German mathematician and biostatistician who founded the Biometrical Journal
  • Nadia Ghazzali (born 1961), Moroccan-Canadian expert on numbers of clusters and university president
  • Jean D. Gibbons (born 1938), American expert in nonparametric statistics and a prolific author of books on statistics
  • Irène Gijbels, Belgian mathematical statistician and expert in nonparametric statistics
  • Ethel Gilbert, American expert in the risks of radiation-induced cancer
  • Krista Gile, American expert on respondent-driven sampling and exponential random graph models
  • Dorothy M. Gilford (1919–2014), head of mathematical statistics at the Office of Naval Research and of the National Center for Education Statistics
  • Ingrid Kristine Glad (born 1965), Norwegian statistician, expert in non-parametric regression, microarray data, and image processing
  • Amanda L. Golbeck, American biostatistician and academic administrator
  • Lisa Goldberg, American mathematical finance scholar and statistician
  • Rebecca Goldin, American director of the Statistical Assessment Service
  • Christina Goldschmidt, British probability theorist
  • Nancy Gordon, American economist and statistician, president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
  • Carol A. Gotway Crawford, American expert in biostatistics, spatial analysis, environmental statistics, and public health
  • Selma Fine Goldsmith (1912–1962), American economic statistician who estimated personal income distribution
  • Patricia Grambsch, American biostatistician, expert on proportional hazards models
  • Mary W. Gray (born 1938), author in applied statistics and founding president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Cindy Greenwood, Canadian statistician, winner of Krieger–Nelson Prize
  • Montserrat Guillén (born 1964), Spanish expert in actuarial statistics, fraud detection, and kernel density estimation
  • Marcia Gumpertz, American agricultural statistician, uses statistics to study employment of women and minorities in STEM
  • Ying Guo, Chinese-American biostatistician and neuroimaging researcher
  • Margaret Gurney (1908–2002), American mathematician, survey statistician, and pioneering computer programmer

H
  • Margaret Jarman Hagood (1907–1963), president of the Population Association of America
  • Marjorie Hahn, American probability theorist and tennis player
  • Linda M. Haines, English and South African expert in the design of experiments
  • Susan Halabi, American biostatistician known for her research on prostate cancer
  • Betz Halloran, biostatistician who studies causal inference and the biostatistics of infectious diseases
  • Ellen Hamaker (born 1974), Dutch-American psychologist and statistician, analyzes longitudinal data in psychology
  • Asta Hampe, German engineer and statistician and first German member of the Women's Engineering Society
  • Bronwyn Harch, Australian environmental statistician, applies mathematical sciences to agriculture, environment, health, manufacturing and energy
  • Alison Harcourt, Australian mathematician and statistician known for branch and bound algorithms and quantification of poverty in Australia
  • Jo Hardin, American statistician who develops high-throughput methods for human genome data
  • Rachel M. Harter, American expert on small area estimation and survey methodology
  • Dominique Haughton, French-American statistician specializing in business analytics, standards of living, and music analytics
  • Lee-Ann C. Hayek, chief mathematical statistician at the National Museum of Natural History
  • Martha S. Hearron (1943–2014), American statistician, helped found and later headed the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  • Nancy E. Heckman, Canadian statistician interested in nonparametric regression, smoothing, functional data analysis, and applications in evolutionary biology
  • Inge Henningsen (born 1941), Danish statistician and feminist
  • Amy H. Herring, American biostatistician and public health researcher working on methods for correlated data
  • Vicki Hertzberg, American biostatistician and public health researcher
  • Agnes M. Herzberg, first female president of the Statistical Society of Canada
  • Irene Hess, American expert on survey methodology for scientific surveys
  • Ho Weang Kee, Malaysian statistical geneticist
  • Jennifer A. Hoeting, American statistician known for her work on Bayesian model averaging
  • Heike Hofmann (born 1972), researcher on interactive data visualization
  • Susan P. Holmes, American statistician who applies nonparametric multivariate statistics, bootstrapping methods, and data visualization to biology
  • Virginia Thompson Holran, American expert on the statistics of life insurance
  • Susan Horn, American biostatistician, developed models for in-practice use by clinicians
  • Chao Agnes Hsiung, Taiwanese biostatistician, president of International Chinese Statistical Association
  • Joan Hu, Chinese–Canadian statistician, researcher on pseudolikelihood, estimating functions, missing data, and applications
  • Haiyan Huang, Chinese-American biostatistician, expert on human genome and on reproducibility
  • Mia Hubert, Belgian robust statistician
  • Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, Jamaican–born American statistician known for her research in drug discovery and chemometrics
  • Shelley Hurwitz, American biostatistician and expert in ethics for statisticians
  • Marie Hušková (born 1942), Czech mathematician who worked in theoretical statistics and change-point problems
  • Jane Hutton, British medical statistician
  • Aparna V. Huzurbazar, American statistician who uses graphical models to understand time-to-event data, sister of Snehalata
  • Snehalata V. Huzurbazar, American statistician, known for her work in statistical genetics and statistical geology, sister of Aparna

I
  • Lurdes Inoue, Japanese–Brazilian specialist in Bayesian inference
  • Telba Irony, Brazilian–American statistician, operations researcher, and proponent of Bayesian statistics at the Food and Drug Administration
  • Valerie Isham (born 1947), British applied probabilist, president of Royal Statistical Society
  • Julie Ivy, American health care statistician, applies systems engineering to health care and to food bank distribution

J
  • Eva E. Jacobs (died 2015), edited Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics and headed the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Division of Consumer Expenditure Surveys
  • Janis Johnston (born 1957), American statistician and sociologist, author of several books on permutation tests in statistics
  • Jana Jurečková (born 1940), Czech expert in nonparametric and robust statistics

K
  • Karen Kafadar, American statistician, president of American Statistical Association
  • Shirley Kallek (1926–1983), American economic statistician at the Bureau of the Census
  • Haya Kaspi (born 1948), Israeli probability theorist
  • Tena Katsaounis, Greek-American statistician, president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
  • Amarjot Kaur, Indian statistician, president of International Indian Statistical Association
  • Katerina Kechris, American biostatistician, uses omics data to study relations between genetics and disease
  • Sallie Keller McNulty (born 1956), American statistician, president of American Statistical Association
  • Gabrielle Kelly, Irish statistician, president of Irish Statistical Association
  • Sheryl F. Kelsey (born 1945), first female statistics PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, made significant contributions to heart disease treatment
  • Christina Kendziorski, American biostatistician, analyzes high-throughput genetic sequencing data
  • Ingrid C. Kildegaard (died 1984), American advertising statistician and market researcher
  • Mimi Kim, American statistician in epidemiology, population health, and biostatistics
  • Ruth King, British expert on the Bayesian analysis of population size
  • Charlotte Kipling (1919–1992), English statistician, ichthyologist, and cryptographer
  • Grace E. Kissling, chief statistician for the National Toxicology Program
  • Claudia Klüppelberg, German mathematical statistician and applied probability theorist, known for risk assessment and statistical finance
  • Inge Koch, Australian statistician, author and advocate for gender diversity in mathematics
  • Daphne Koller (born 1968), Israeli–American author of text and online course on probabilistic graphical models, 2004 MacArthur Fellow
  • Olga Korosteleva, Russian-American statistician and author of statistics books
  • Hildegarde Kneeland (1889–1994), American home economist, social statistician, and expert on time-use research
  • Mariana Kotzeva (born 1967), Bulgarian statistician and econometrician, head of National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria and of Eurostat
  • Mary Grace Kovar (1926–2015), American biostatistician at the National Center for Health Statistics
  • Helena Chmura Kraemer, American biostatistician
  • Frauke Kreuter, German researcher on in survey methodology, sampling error, and observational error
  • Tatyana Krivobokova, Kazakh statistician, expert on spline smoothing
  • Shonda Kuiper, American statistics educator
  • Lynn Kuo (born 1949), American statistician known for her work on Bayesian inference in phylogeny
  • Bärbel-Maria Kurth (born 1954), German statistician and epidemiologist

L
  • Nan Laird (born 1943), American biostatistician, discoverer of the EM algorithm
  • Helen Humes Lamale (1912–1998), American labor statistician
  • Diane Lambert, American statistician known for zero-inflated models
  • Kathleen Lamborn, American biostatistician known for her highly cited publications on glioma
  • Julia Lane, New Zealand, British, and American economist and economic statistician
  • Jodi Lapidus, American biostatistician interested in Native American health and injury prevention
  • Lisa Morrissey LaVange, American biostatistician, president of American Statistical Association
  • Nicole Lazar (born 1966), American–Canadian–Israeli researcher on empirical likelihood and functional neuroimaging
  • Alice Lee (1858–1939), British researcher on biometrics
  • Elisa T. Lee, Chinese-American statistician who directs the Center for American Indian Health Research
  • Hollylynne Lee, American mathematics and statistics educator
  • Ji-Hyun Lee, American expert on clinical trials for cancer, president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
  • Mei-Ling Ting Lee, Taiwanese-American biostatistician known for her research on microarrays
  • Yoonkyung Lee, Korean–American expert on multicategory support vector machines
  • Julie Legler, American biostatistician, statistics educator, and interdisciplinary undergraduate educator
  • Virginia Lesser, American researcher on non-sampling error, survey methodology, and agricultural applications of statistics
  • Judith T. Lessler, American expert on survey methodology and organic farmer
  • Sue Leurgans, American expert on the biostatistics of human body movement
  • Elizaveta Levina, Russian–American mathematical statistician known for her work in high-dimensional statistics and covariance estimation
  • Denise Lievesley, British director of Statistics at UNESCO, founder of the Institute for Statistics, and director of the UK Data Archive
  • Shili Lin, American statistician who studies applications of statistics to genomic data
  • Xihong Lin, Chinese statistician known for contributions to mixed models, non- and semi-parametric regression, and statistical genetics
  • Ivy Liu, Taiwanese and New Zealand statistician specializing in categorical and ordinal data
  • Regina Liu, American statistician, invented simplicial depth
  • Lisa Lix (born 1966), Canadian health scientist and biostatistician
  • Greta M. Ljung (born 1941), Finnish–American statistician, namesake of Ljung–Box test for time series data
  • Patti Frazer Lock (born 1953), American mathematics and statistics educator and textbook author
  • Jane Loevinger (1918–2008), American psychologist and psychometrician, originator of Loevinger's H coefficient
  • Sharon Lohr, American statistician, applies survey sampling and design of experiments to education and criminology
  • Wendy Lou, Canadian biostatistician, expert on runs and patterns in sequences
  • Isobel Loutit (1909–2009), one of the earliest female professional statisticians in Canada

M
  • Eleanor Josephine Macdonald (1906–2007), American cancer epidemiologist who established the first cancer registry in the US
  • Brenda MacGibbon, Canadian mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist
  • Helen MacGillivray, Australian statistician, president of International Statistical Institute and Statistical Society of Australia
  • Amita Manatunga, Sri Lankan biostatistician
  • Elizabeth Margosches, American statistician at the US Environmental Protection Agency
  • Nancy Mann, American statistician known for her research on quality management, reliability estimation, and the Weibull distribution
  • Cathie Marsh (1951–1993), British sociologist and statistician who made a case for the use of surveys in sociology
  • Gael M. Martin, Australian Bayesian econometrician
  • Margaret P. Martin (1915–2012), American biostatistician, published a series of papers on maternal and infant nutrition
  • Wendy L. Martinez, American statistician, author of two books on MATLAB and coordinating editor of Statistics Surveys
  • Rochelle Martinez, American government statistician
  • Hélène Massam, Canadian statistician known for her research on the Wishart distribution and on graphical models
  • Jil Matheson, former National Statistician of the UK
  • Nancy Mathiowetz, American sociologist and statistician, combined cognitive psychology with survey methodology
  • Deborah Mayo, frequentist statistician and professor of philosophy of science at Virginia Tech; author of books on probability and risk management
  • Sally McClean, Northern Irish statistician, computer scientist, and operations researcher
  • Leslie McClure, American biostatistician, champion for diversity, and statistics blogger
  • Laura McKenna, American census statistician, expert on statistical disclosure control
  • Fabrizia Mealli (born 1966), Italian researcher on causal inference, missing data, and the statistics of employment
  • Elizabeth Meckes, American probability theorist
  • Kerrie Mengersen (born 1962), Australian director of the Bayesian Research and Applications Group at Queensland University of Technology
  • Margaret Merrell (1900–1995), American biostatistician known for her research on the construction of life tables
  • Ida Craven Merriam (1904–1997), American Social Security economist and statistician who founded the National Academy of Social Insurance
  • Ana Fernández Militino, Spanish spatial statistician
  • Carmen A. Miró (born 1919), Panamanian demographer
  • Leyla Mohadjer, expert in survey methodology, total survey error, quality control, and participation bias
  • Katherine Monti, American statistician known for graphical methods and the statistics of pet health
  • Irene Montie (1921–2018), American statistician for the Census Bureau; president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
  • Erica Moodie, Canadian biostatistician, expert on dynamic treatment regimes
  • Leslie M. Moore, applies statistics to scientific experiments and simulations
  • Motomi Mori, Japanese–American biostatistician who has studied hospital-acquired infections, bone marrow transplants, and personalized medicine
  • June Morita, American statistics educator
  • Pamela Morse (c. 1923–2009), British and Canadian agricultural statistician
  • Bhramar Mukherjee, Indian-American biostatistician, chair of COPSS
  • Mary Mulry, American census statistician
  • Susan Murphy (born 1958), applies statistical methods to clinical trials of treatments for chronic and relapsing medical conditions
  • Kary Myers, American expert on scientific data analysis and radiation monitoring
  • Janet Myhre, founded Reed Institute for Decision Science at Claremont McKenna College

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One of Florence Nightingale's pioneering works in statistical graphics
  • Mary Gibbons Natrella (1922–1988), author of a widely used handbook on statistics for scientific and engineering experiments
  • Johanna G. Nešlehová, Czech-Canadian mathematical statistician, known for work on copulas and operational risk
  • 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
  • Deborah A. Nolan, American statistician and statistics educator
  • Sharon-Lise Normand, Canadian biostatistician who evaluates the quality of care provided by physicians and hospitals
  • Delia North, a leader in statistics education in South Africa
  • Janet L. Norwood (1923–2015), first female Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Paula Norwood, American biostatistician, worked in pharmaceutical industry
  • Sarah Nusser (born 1957), American survey statistician
  • Regina Nuzzo, American statistician, science communicator, and teacher of statistics to the deaf
  • Vera Nyitrai (1926–2011), president of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office and first female chair of the United Nations Statistical Commission

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  • Sofia Olhede, British mathematical statistician known for her research on wavelets, graphons, and high-dimensional statistics
  • Beatrice S. Orleans (died 2011), chief statistician in the US Naval Sea Systems Command
  • Mollie Orshansky (1915–2006), American economist and statistician, set poverty thresholds for household income

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  • Edna Paisano (1948–2014), demographer who improved the accuracy of the Native American US census category
  • Gladys L. Palmer (1895–1967), American social statistician known for her work on labor mobility and labor statistics
  • J. Lynn Palmer, American biostatistician known for her research on missing data and on treatments for cancer
  • Mari Palta, Swedish biostatistician, president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics
  • Anna Panorska, Polish-American expert on extreme events in stochastic processes and on the effect of weather on baseball performance
  • Cristina Parel, first Filipino to earn a doctorate in statistics
  • Eun Sug Park, Korean-American transportation statistician
  • Jennifer D. Parker, American statistician who studies connections between socioeconomics, pollution, and reproductive health
  • Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn, Spanish statistician and geoscientist
  • Roxy Peck, American statistics educator
  • Magda Peligrad, Romanian probability theorist known for her work on stochastic processes
  • Olga Pendleton, American expert on road traffic safety and multiple linear regression
  • Limin Peng, Chinese biostatistician, won Mortimer Spiegelman Award
  • Marianna Pensky, Soviet and American mathematical statistician, expert on wavelets and Bayesian analysis
  • Sonia Petrone, Italian statistician who uses Bernstein polynomials in nonparametric Bayesian methods
  • Maxine Pfannkuch, New Zealand statistics educator
  • Polly Phipps, American survey and labor statistician
  • Dominique Picard (born 1953), French expert on the statistical applications of wavelets
  • Shirley Pledger, New Zealand mathematician and statistician known for her work on mark and recapture methods
  • Elżbieta Pleszczyńska (born 1933), Polish statistician, disability rights activist
  • Raquel Prado (born 1970), Venezuelan statistician specializing in Bayesian analysis of time series
  • Dionne Price, African-American statistician at the US Food and Drug Administration
  • Ruth Rice Puffer (1907–2002), led the Inter-American Investigation of Childhood Mortality at the Pan American Health Organization

Q
  • Annie Qu, Chinese statistician known for her work on estimating equations and semiparametric models

R
  • Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, American expert on generalized linear mixed models with latent variables
  • Kavita Ramanan, Indian–American probability theorist
  • Lila Knudsen Randolph (1908–1965), chief statistician at the Food and Drug Administration
  • Nalini Ravishanker, Indian statistician interested in time series analysis and applications to actuarial science, business, and transportation
  • Carol K. Redmond, American biostatistician known for her research on breast cancer
  • Nancy Reid (born 1952), Canadian theoretical statistician, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Statistical Society of Canada
  • Gesine Reinert, German statistician at Oxford, expert on biological sequences and biological networks
  • Gladys H. Reynolds, American statistician who did pioneering research on modeling sexually transmitted diseases
  • Dorothy P. Rice (1922–2017), American health statistician who helped create the National Death Index
  • Sylvia Richardson, French expert on Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for spatial statistics
  • Jeanne Clare Ridley (1925–2007), American sociologist, statistician, and demographer, known for her work on fertility
  • Carmen L. Rivera-Medina, Puerto Rican psychologist, statistician, and methodologist
  • Naomi B. Robbins, American expert in data visualization
  • Paula Roberson, American biostatistician, president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
  • Rosemary Roberts, statistics educator who led the creation of AP Statistics
  • Kathryn Roeder, American statistician who laid the foundations for DNA forensics
  • Jennifer Rogers, British statistician and statistics communicator
  • Judith Rousseau, French statistician who studies frequentist properties of Bayesian methods
  • Sherri Rose, American biostatistician, focuses on statistical machine learning for health care policy
  • Joan R. Rosenblatt, American statistician, director of computing and applied mathematics at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Naomi D. Rothwell, introduced behavioral research to the US Census, wrote about experiences running a halfway house
  • Gerta Rücker (born 1955), German expert on meta-analysis
  • Cynthia Rudin (born 1976), American computer scientist and statistician known for her work in explainable artificial intelligence
  • Pat Ruggles, American economist and social statistician who studies poverty
  • Deborah J. Rumsey (born 1961), American statistics educator, founder of Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education
  • Barbara Falkenbach Ryan, American mathematician, computer scientist, statistician and business executive
  • Louise M. Ryan, Australian expert on the statistics of cancer and risk assessment in environmental health

S
  • Mary D. Sammel, American biostatistician also known for her work with guide dogs
  • Ester Samuel-Cahn (born 1933), winner of the Israel Prize for her work in statistics
  • Brisa Sánchez, Mexican-American biostatistician and environmental epidemiologist
  • Susan M. Sanchez (born 1959), American expert on data farming from agent-based simulation
  • Marta Sanz-Solé (born 1952), Catalan researcher on stochastic processes, president of the European Mathematical Society
  • Sophie Schbath (born 1969), French statistician of patterns in strings and DNA
  • Nora Cate Schaeffer, American sociologist and survey statistician
  • Edna Schechtman (born 1948), Israeli expert on mean absolute difference methods, president of Israel Statistical Association
  • Alexandra M. Schmidt, Brazilian biostatistician and epidemiologist, president of ISBA
  • Elizabeth Scott (1917–1988), applied statistics to astronomy and weather modification, promoted equal opportunity for women
  • Marian Scott (born 1956), Scottish statistician specialising in environmental statistics and statistical modelling
  • Marilyn Seastrom (born 1951), American educational statistician
  • Paola Sebastiani, Italian biostatistician and genetic epidemiologist
  • Nell Sedransk, American statistician who directed the National Institute of Statistical Sciences
  • Esther Seiden (1908–2014), Polish–Israeli–American mathematical statistician known for her research on design of experiments and combinatorial design
  • Kimberly Sellers, American expert on count data, statistical dispersion, and the Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution
  • Juliet Popper Shaffer (born 1932), American psychologist and statistician known for her research on multiple hypothesis testing
  • Nagambal Shah, Indian-American mathematician and statistician known for her mentorship of minority students
  • Katrina Sharples, New Zealand biostatistician and violist
  • Lianne Sheppard, American expert on the health effects of air pollution
  • Mindel C. Sheps (1913–1973), Canadian physician, biostatistician and demographer
  • Stephanie Shipp, American economist and social statistician
  • Galit Shmueli, Israeli expert in business statistics, author of multiple textbooks
  • Eleanor Singer, Austrian-born American expert on survey methodology
  • Judith D. Singer, American statistician known for her work on multilevel models, survival analysis, and individual growth models
  • Janet Sinsheimer, American statistical geneticist
  • Rosedith Sitgreaves (1915–1992), American researcher on random matrices and Kendall's W
  • Elizabeth H. Slate, American statistician interested in the Bayesian statistics of longitudinal data and applications to health
  • Aleksandra Slavković, American expert on statistical disclosure control, algebraic statistics, and applications in social science
  • Kirstine Smith (1878–1939), Danish statistician, created the field of optimal design of experiments
  • Joyce Snell (born 1930), British statistician known for her work on residuals and ordered categorical data, and for her books on statistics
  • Mary Eleanor Spear (1897–1986), American data visualization specialist
  • Joan Staniswalis (1957–2018), American biostatistician, studied effects of air quality and racial inequality on health
  • Elizabeth Stasny, American expert on missing data in surveys
  • Fiona Steele, British statistician who studies longitudinal data and applications in demography and education
  • Sandra Stinnett, American statistician specializing in the biostatistics of ophthalmology
  • Victoria Stodden, American statistician focusing on the reproducibility of research in computational science
  • Maura Stokes, American statistician, SAS developer, and young-adult novelist
  • S. Lynne Stokes, American expert on modeling non-sampling errors, mark and recapture methods, and opinion polls
  • Ineke Stoop (born 1953), Dutch survey statistician
  • Deborah Street (born 1957), Australian expert on the design of experiments
  • Cyntha Struthers (born c. 1954), Canadian mathematical statistician, president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
  • Elizabeth A. Stuart, American researcher on causal inference and missing data in the statistics of mental health
  • Thérèse Stukel, Canadian statistician interested in surgical mortality, regional variations in healthcare spending, and cardiology
  • Catherine Sugar, American biostatistician who studies cluster analysis, covariance, and applications in medicine and psychiatry
  • Jiayang Sun, Chinese-American statistician, president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
  • Lei Sun, Chinese-Canadian statistical geneticist
  • Nike Sun, American probability theorist studying phase transitions and counting complexity
  • Deborah F. Swayne, American expert on information visualization who wrote the GGobi software package

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  • 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
  • Nancy Temkin, American statistician who works on the biostatistics of traumatic brain injury
  • Dorothy Swaine Thomas (1899–1977), population growth expert who became first female president of the American Sociological Association
  • Lori Thombs, American social statistician, president of Southern Regional Council On Statistics
  • C. Jean Thompson (born 1940), president of New Zealand Statistical Association
  • Elizabeth A. Thompson (born 1949), English-born American statistician, uses genetic data to infer relationships between individuals and populations
  • Jean Helen Thompson (1926–1992), British chief statistician in Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, president of British Society for Population Studies
  • Katherine J. Thompson, American statistician in the Census Bureau, president of ASA Section on Government Statistics
  • Mary E. Thompson, Canadian statistician known for her work in tobacco control, and president of the Statistical Society of Canada
  • Ene-Margit Tiit (born 1934), Estonian mathematician and statistician, founding president of Estonian Statistical Society
  • Barbara Tilley, American biostatistician, president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
  • Kate Tilling, British statistician interested in applications to epidemiology and health services
  • Mary N. Torrey (born 1910), American mathematical statistician and expert in quality control
  • Sherry Towers, American and Canadian statistician, studied contagion effect of mass shootings

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  • Caroline Uhler (1935– ), Swiss statistician specializing in algebraic statistics and its applications in genomics
  • Jessica Utts (born 1952), American parapsychologist, statistics educator, and president of the American Statistical Association

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  • Ingrid Van Keilegom (born 1971), Belgian statistician interested in nonparametric statistics and survival analysis
  • Mary van Kleeck (1883–1972), American social feminist and proponent of scientific management and a planned economy
  • Marina Vannucci (born 1966), Italian expert in wavelets, feature selection, and cluster analysis in Bayesian statistics
  • Maria Eulália Vares, Brazilian expert in stochastic processes
  • Eva Vedel Jensen (born 1951), Danish spatial statistician, stereologist, and stochastic geometer
  • Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser, Swiss statistician, applies robust statistics to statistical finance and biostatistics

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  • Jane Wadsworth (1942–1997), British medical statistician and sexual health researcher
  • Grace Wahba (born 1934), American pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data
  • 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
  • Huixia Judy Wang, Chinese–American expert on quantile regression
  • Jane-Ling Wang, studies dimension reduction, functional data analysis, and aging
  • Lily Wang, Chinese-American statistician, studies non- and semi-parametric methods for large high-dimensional data sets
  • Mei-Cheng Wang, Taiwanese biostatistician known for her work on survival analysis and truncation
  • Naisyin Wang, Taiwanese statistician, president of the International Chinese Statistical Association
  • Marie Wann, American government statistician, president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
  • Ann E. Watkins, American statistics educator, president of the Mathematical Association of America
  • Kimberly Weems, American statistician active in mentoring women and members of underrepresented groups
  • Ying Wei, Chinese statistician interested in quantile regression and semiparametric models of longitudinal data
  • Joanne Wendelberger, American statistician and a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Nanny Wermuth (born 1943), German and Swedish expert in graphical Markov models and their applications in the life sciences
  • Jessamine S. Whitney (1880–1941), American statistician and public health professional
  • Alice S. Whittemore, American group theorist, biostatistician, and epidemiologist who studies the effects of genetics and lifestyle on cancer
  • Aryness Joy Wickens (1901–1991), American labor statistician and president of the American Statistical Association
  • Rebecca Willett, American statistician and computer scientist working in machine learning, signal processing, and data science
  • Ruth J. Williams, American probability theorist, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, member of National Academy of Sciences
  • Alyson Wilson (born 1967), American expert on Bayesian reliability and military statistics
  • Susan R. Wilson (born 1948), Australian statistician known for studying biostatistics, statistical genetics, and the spread of AIDS in Australia
  • Sharon Witherspoon (born 1956), British Head of Policy of the Academy of Social Sciences, founding researcher of British Social Attitudes Survey
  • Daniela Witten, American biostatistician interested in machine learning and high-dimensional data
  • Janet Wittes, American statistician and statistical consultant specializing in clinical trials
  • Frances Wood (1883–1919), English medical statistician, namesake of Wood medal of Royal Statistical Society
  • Hilda Mary Woods (1892–1971), British epidemiologist, first female lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • Jane Worcester (died 1989), American biostatistician and epidemiologist, second tenured woman at the Harvard School of Public Health
  • Margaret Wu, Australian statistician, developed estimators for genetic diversity

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  • Grace Yang, Chinese–American expert on stochastic processes in the physical sciences, asymptotic theory, and survival analysis
  • Jean Yang, Australian statistician known for her work on microarray and mass spectrometry data
  • Grace Y. Yi, Chinese–Canadian expert in event history analysis with missing data in medicine, engineering, and social science
  • Linda J. Young (born 1952), Chief Mathematical Statistician at the National Agricultural Statistics Service
  • Ruriko Yoshida, Japanese-American combinatorist, statistician, phylogeneticist, and operations researcher
  • Bin Yu, Chinese–American statistician, president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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  • Ann Zauber, American biostatistician whose research demonstrated the effectiveness of colonoscopy
  • Judy Zeh, American statistician known for Bayesian estimation of bowhead whale populations
  • Rita Zemach (1926–2015), American statistician who worked for the Michigan Department of Public Health
  • Hao Helen Zhang, Chinese–American expert in nonparametric statistics, data mining, and machine learning
  • Linda Zhao, Chinese-American statistician, applies machine learning to real estate pricing
  • Jun Zhu, American statistician and entomologist interested in spatio-temporal data and environmental statistics
  • Rebecca Zwick, American expert on educational assessment and college admissions

See also

References
  1. Golbeck, Amanda L.; Olkin, Ingram; Gel, Yulia R., eds. (2015), Leadership and Women in Statistics, CRC Press, ISBN 9781482236453.
  2. Stinnett, Sandra (May 1990), "Women in Statistics: Sesquicentennial Activities", The American Statistician, 44 (2): 74–80, doi:10.2307/2684131, JSTOR 2684131.
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