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 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.
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