List of women in statistics

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

Contents

* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

* See also
* References
* External links

## A

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* 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

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* 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
* 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
* 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. 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
* 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

## C

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Kate Claghorn became the first female ASA Fellow.

* Kate Calder, American expert on spatiotemporal Bayesian modeling
* Marion Campbell, Scottish medical statistician and academic administrator
* 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
* 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
* 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
* Fabienne Comte, French financial statistician, expert on stochastic volatility, autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity, and deconvolution
* Alanna Connors (1956–2013), Hong Kong-born American astronomer and statistician, introduced Bayesian statistics to high-energy astronomy
* 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

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* 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
* Maria De Iorio (born 1972) Italian statistician, uses Bayesian methods in bioinformatics
* 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
* Paula Diehr, American biostatistician and health systems researcher
* E. Jacquelin Dietz, American statistics educator, founding editor of the Journal of Statistics Education
* Cathryn S. Dippo, American government statistician
* 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
* Deborah Donnell, New Zealand and American biostatistician, expert on HIV prevention
* 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
* Miriam Gasko Donoho, American statistician, expert on binary regression, survival analysis, robust regression, and data visualization
* 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

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* Morgan Earp, US government statistician
* Lynn Eberly, American researcher in longitudinal studies, medical imaging, and other forms of correlated data
* Stephanie Eckman, American data scientist, expert on data quality and survey methodology
* Constance van Eeden (1927–2021), 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
* Andreea Erciulescu, Romanian agricultural and survey statistician
* Elena Erosheva, Russian social statistician
* Sylvia Esterby, Canadian environmental statistician, founder of the International Environmetrics Society
* Alison Etheridge (born 1964), English researcher in theoretical population genetics and mathematical ecology
* Ruth Etzioni, biostatistician, develops statistical computer models of cancer progression

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* 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
* Krista Fischer, Estonian biostatistician
* Carol Fitz-Gibbon (1938–2017), British expert and activist in education evaluation
* Evelyn Fix (1904–1965), American statistician who invented the nearest neighbor method
* Betty Flehinger (c. 1922 – 2000), American biostatistician, pioneer of computerized medical diagnosis
* 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
* Emily B. Fox, American statistician, expert in Bayesian modeling of time series and in Monte Carlo methods
* Liliana Forzani, Argentine applied mathematician and statistician, expert in dimensionality reduction
* Christine A. Franklin, American statistics educator
* Laura J. Freeman, American statistician and reliability engineer
* 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

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* Linda Gage, California state demographer
* Margaret Gamalo, Filipino-American biostatistician and drug development executive
* Nina Gantert, Swiss and German probability theorist
* Nancy L. Garcia, Brazilian spatial statistician
* Tanya P. Garcia, Peruvian-American biostatistician, applies robust statistics to Huntington's disease
* Martha M. Gardner, American statistician associated with GE Global Research
* Joan Garfield, American educational psychologist specializing in statistics education
* Élisabeth Gassiat (born 1961), French mathematical statistician
* 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
* Misrak Gezmu, Ethiopian-American biostatistician
* 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
* María Ángeles Gil (born 1953), Spanish fuzzy statistician
* 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
* Beth Gladen, American statistician known for children's environmental health and prevalence estimation
* Amanda L. Golbeck, American biostatistician and academic administrator
* Judith Goldberg, American biostatistician, founder of NYU biostatistics division
* Lisa Goldberg, American mathematical finance scholar and statistician
* Rebecca Goldin, American director of the Statistical Assessment Service
* Christina Goldschmidt, British probability theorist
* Graciela González Farías, Mexican statistician, expert on shape parameters of skewed data
* María Elena González Mederos (1932–1996), Cuban-American government statistician, poetry translator, and human rights activist
* Melody Goodman, American biostatistician interested in social risk factors, health literacy, and stakeholder engagement
* 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
* Celia Greenwood, Canadian biostatistician and statistical geneticist
* Cindy Greenwood, Canadian statistician, winner of Krieger–Nelson Prize
* Beth Ann Griffin, American expert on causal inference in public health statistics
* Deborah H. Griffin, American census statistician
* Clare Griffiths, British expert in mortality statistics
* Emily H. Griffith, American spatial statistician and statistics educator
* Ulrike Grömping, German expert on regression analysis with variable importance
* 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

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* 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
* Katherine Halvorsen, American statistician and statistics educator
* 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
* Jennifer Hill, American statistician, applies causal inference to social statistics
* MaryAnn Hill, American statistical software developer
* Susan Hinkins, American government and survey statistician, expert on human rights
* 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
* Carol House, American government statistician specializing in agricultural statistics
* 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
* Chiung-Yu Huang, Taiwanese-American biostatistician focusing on vaccine efficacy
* Rebecca Hubbard, American biostatistician, studies electronic health record data
* Haiyan Huang, Chinese-American biostatistician, expert on human genome and on reproducibility
* Li-Shan Huang, Taiwanese biostatistician
* Mia Hubert, Belgian robust statistician
* Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, Jamaican–born American statistician known for her research in drug discovery and chemometrics
* Ying Hung, Taiwanese-American expert in the statistics of computer experiments
* 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
* Shih-Jen Hwang, Taiwanese-American biostatistician and epidemiologist

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* Pilar Ibarrola (born 1944), Spanish statistician and stochastic control theorist
* 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
* Kathi Irvine, American ecological statistician
* Valerie Isham (born 1947), British applied probabilist, president of Royal Statistical Society
* Anastasia Ivanova, biostatistician focusing on clinical trials
* Julie Ivy, American health care statistician, applies systems engineering to health care and to food bank distribution

## J

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* 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
* Linda A. Jacobsen, American demographer
* Monica C. Jackson, American statistician and academic administrator, applies spatial statistics to disease monitoring
* Janis Johnston (born 1957), American statistician and sociologist, author of several books on permutation tests in statistics
* Laura Lee Johnson, American government biostatistician
* Mikyoung Jun, Korean-American spatial and environmental statistician
* Jana Jurečková (born 1940), Czech expert in nonparametric and robust statistics
* Ana Justel, Spanish statistician and Antarctic scientist

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* 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
* Emilie Kaufmann (born 1987), French statistician and computer scientist, expert on machine learning and multi-armed bandits
* Amarjot Kaur, Indian statistician, president of International Indian Statistical Association
* Katerina Kechris, American biostatistician, uses omics data to study relations between genetics and disease
* Nataša Kejžar, Slovenian Olympic swimmer and network scientist
* Sündüz Keleş, Turkish statistician specializing in statistical methods in genomics
* Sallie Ann Keller (born 1956), American statistician, president of American Statistical Association
* Elizabeth J. Kelly, American statistician, applies statistics to environmental remediation and plutonium disposal
* 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
* Adrienne W. Kemp (1930–2022), British expert on discrete distributions
* Christina Kendziorski, American biostatistician, analyzes high-throughput genetic sequencing data
* Ingrid C. Kildegaard (died 1984), American advertising statistician and market researcher
* Dong-Yun Kim, biostatistician, president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
* Hyune-Ju Kim, Korean-American expert in change-point detection and segmented regression
* Mimi Kim, American statistician in epidemiology, population health, and biostatistics
* Eileen King (born 1954), American biostatistician specializing in the design and analysis of clinical trials
* Ruth King, British expert on the Bayesian analysis of population size
* Charlotte Kipling (1919–1992), English statistician, ichthyologist, and cryptographer
* Nancy Kirkendall, American government statistician
* 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
* Marlene Kretschmer, German statistician and climatologist, applies causal inference to climate change
* 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
* Ana Kupresanin, Croatian-American statistician, head of scientific data at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
* Bärbel-Maria Kurth (born 1954), German statistician and epidemiologist

## L

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* 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
* Mary Beth Landrum, British-American statistician specializing in health services and the quality of health care
* 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
* Kim-Anh Lê Cao, French and Australian statistician and computational biologist
* 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
* Bo Li, Chinese-American geostatistician and paleoclimatologist
* Fan Li, Chinese-American biostatistician, applies causal inference to comparative effectiveness
* Jingyi Jessica Li, Chinese-American biostatistician, integrates statistics with genomics and transcriptomics
* Mingyao Li, Chinese-American biostatistician and statistical geneticist
* Denise Lievesley, British director of Statistics at UNESCO, founder of the Institute for Statistics, and director of the UK Data Archive
* Huazhen Lin, Chinese statistician, expert on survival analysis and nonparametric statistics
* 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
* Fang Liu, Chinese-American expert on statistical machine learning and data privacy
* 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
* Regina Loewenstein (1916–1999), American public health statistician
* 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

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* Shujie Ma, Chinese-American expert in nonparametric and semiparametric regression
* Yanyuan Ma, Chinese-American expert in semiparametric statistics and dimension reduction
* Marloes Maathuis (born 1978), Dutch statistician, researcher on causal inference
* 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
* Winifred Mackenzie (1896–1954), English statistician and missionary
* Jennifer Madans, American health statistician, acting director of National Center for Health Statistics
* Linda Malone (born 1944), American statistician, textbook author, and industrial engineer
* 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
* Elizabeth Mannshardt, American environmental statistician, studies climate change and extremes of weather and climate
* Angela Mariotto, Italian statistician, expert on cancer progress measures
* Marianthi Markatou, Greek-American biostatistician, expert on pharmacovigilance
* Cathie Marsh (1951–1993), British sociologist and statistician who made a case for the use of surveys in sociology
* Elizabeth A. Martin, American census statististian, introduced cognitive science principles to surveys and improved count of homeless
* 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
* Margaret T. May, British biostatistician and epidemiolist, expert on life expectancy of HIV patients
* 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
* Kelly McConville, American statistics educator and survey and environmental statistician
* Laura McKenna, American census statistician, expert on statistical disclosure control
* Lisa McShane, American biostatistician, oncologist, and expert on biomarkers and biometrics
* 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
* Jacqueline Meulman (born 1954), Dutch expert in multivariate analysis
* Mary C. Meyer, American expert in nonparametric density estimation with shape constraints
* Weiwen Miao, Chinese-American expert on legal statistics
* Ruth Mickey (born 1954), American expert in selection of confounding variables
* Diana Miglioretti, American biostatistician, expert on breast cancer screening and radiation hazards from medical imaging
* Ana Fernández Militino, Spanish spatial statistician
* Antonietta Mira, Italian expert in Markov chain Monte Carlo methods and in mathematical magic
* Carmen A. Miró (1919–2022), Panamanian demographer
* Nandita Mitra, American biostatistician, expert in causal inference, difference-in-difference, and health economics
* Yash Mittal (born 1941), first female program director for probability at US National Science Foundation
* Leyla Mohadjer, expert in survey methodology, total survey error, quality control, and participation bias
* Francesca Molinari, Italian econometrician and economic and survey statistician
* 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
* Reneé H. Moore, American biostatistician, expert on obesity and sleep
* Carolyn Morgan, American statistician and applied mathematician
* 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
* Alison Motsinger-Reif, American biostatistician and geneticist
* 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

## N

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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 copula modeling and operational risk
* Anna Nevius, American biostatistician and expert in veterinary medicine
* 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
* Jing Ning, Chinese-American biostatistician
* 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
* Philomena Nyarko, chief executive of the Ghana Statistical Service
* Vera Nyitrai (1926–2011), president of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office and first female chair of the United Nations Statistical Commission

## O

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* Nancy Obuchowski (born 1962), American biostatistician and radiologist
* Laura O'Dwyer, Irish-American statistician, performs statistical analyses of science education outcomes
* Judith O'Fallon, American medical statistician
* 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

## P

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* Susan Paddock, American expert on nonparametric inference for substance abuse and autonomous vehicles
* 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
* Layla Parast, American biostatistician and public health commentator
* 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
* Jane Pendergast, American biostatistician specializing in multivariate statistics and longitudinal data
* 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
* Sonja Petrović, American mathematical statistician
* Maxine Pfannkuch, New Zealand statistics educator
* Ruth Pfeiffer, American biostatistician focusing on risk prediction, molecular epidemiology, and electronic medical records
* Polly Phipps, American survey and labor statistician
* Dominique Picard (born 1953), French expert on the statistical applications of wavelets
* Linda Williams Pickle, American expert on spatial data analysis
* E. C. Pielou (1924–2016), Canadian statistical ecologist
* Iris Pigeot (born 1960), German biostatistician, biometrician, and epidemiologist
* 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
* Anne Polivka, American economic statistician
* 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
* Megan Price, American statistician, uses statistics to investigate human rights violations
* Ruth Rice Puffer (1907–2002), led the Inter-American Investigation of Childhood Mortality at the Pan American Health Organization

## Q

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

## R

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* 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
* Bonnie Ray, American statistician and data scientist
* 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
* Jian-Jian Ren, Chinese-American statistician, expert in longitudinal data and survival analysis
* Patricia Reynaud-Bouret (born 1978), French expert on Hawkes processes with applications in neuroscience and genomics
* 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
* Veronika Ročková, Czech-American Bayesian statistician
* Eliane R. Rodrigues, Brazilian-Mexican researcher on stochastic models for pollution and health
* 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
* Andrea Rotnitzky, Argentine expert on causal inference for medical interventions with missing data
* 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
* Estelle Russek-Cohen, American biostatistician and expert in biometrics
* 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
* Karen Ryberg, American hydrologist and environmental statistician

## S

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* Chiara Sabatti, Italian-American statistical geneticist
* 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
* Lilly Sanathanan, Indian statistician, applied statistics to particle physics and drug development
* Brisa Sánchez, Mexican-American biostatistician and environmental epidemiologist
* Susan M. Sanchez (born 1959), American expert on data farming from agent-based simulation
* Matilde Sanchez-Kam, Filipino-American pharmaceutical statistician
* Huiyan Sang, Chinese-American spatial statistician
* 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
* Diallo Sène (born 1952), Malian statistician, national minister for the promotion of women, children, and the family
* Damla Şentürk, Turkish-American biostatistician, expert on longitudinal and functional analysis for autism and dialysis
* 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
* Julia Sharp, American statistician, expert on scientific statistical collaborations
* 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
* Holly Shulman, American reproductive health statistician
* Debra T. Silverman, American biostatistician and cancer epidemiologist
* 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
* Margaret Smagorinsky (1915–2011), American government statistician and meteorologist
* Kirstine Smith (1878–1939), Danish statistician, created the field of optimal design of experiments
* Leah M. Smith, Canadian biostatistician and cancer researcher
* Joyce Snell (born 1930), British statistician known for her work on residuals and ordered categorical data, and for her books on statistics
* Rui Song, Chinese-American statistician, expert on causal inference, independence screening, precision medicine, and financial statistics
* Xinyuan Song, Chinese expert on structural equation modeling
* Mary Eleanor Spear (1897–1986), American data visualization specialist
* Donna Spiegelman, American biostatistician and epidemiologist
* Nancy Spruill, American statistician and defense acquisitions analyst
* Dalene Stangl, (1956–), American statistician, promoted use of Bayesian statistics in medicine and health policy
* Joan Staniswalis (1957–2018), American biostatistician, studied effects of air quality and racial inequality on health
* Ana-Maria Staicu, Romanian and American expert on functional regression
* Elizabeth Stasny, American expert on missing data in surveys
* Fiona Steele, British statistician who studies longitudinal data and applications in demography and education
* Alisa Stephens-Shields, American biostatistician, expert in clinical trials, pelvic pain, and testosterone treatment
* 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
* Lisa M. Sullivan (born 1961), American biostatistician associated with the Framingham Heart Study
* 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
* Rajeshwari Sundaram, Indian biostatistician, expert in survival analysis and reproductive health
* Deborah F. Swayne, American expert on information visualization who wrote the GGobi software package

## T

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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
* Mahbanoo Tata (born 1942), Indian-born Iranian statistician
* 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
* Sally Thurston, American biostatistician and environmental health statistician
* 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
* Elizabeth Tipton, American statistician, applies causal inference from meta-analysis to social statistics
* 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
* Andrea Troxel, American biostatistician, expert in behavioral economics in public health

## U

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* María Dolores Ugarte, Spanish spatial statistician and epidemiologist
* Caroline Uhler (1935– ), Swiss statistician specializing in algebraic statistics and its applications in genomics
* Theresa Utlaut, American statistical quality control engineer at Intel
* Jessica Utts (born 1952), American parapsychologist, statistics educator, and president of the American Statistical Association

## V

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* Angelika van der Linde, German expert on Bayesian model complexity
* 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
* Jennifer Van Mullekom, American industrial statistician and statistical consulting educator
* 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
* Olga Vitek, biostatistician and computer scientist specializing in bioinformatics and proteomics
* Júlia Volaufová, Slovak biostatistician, studies nutrition and mixed models

## W

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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
* Melanie Wall (born 1971), American psychiatric biostatistician, psychometrician, and mental health data scientist
* 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
* Lu Wang, Chinese-American biostatistician, researches dynamic treatment decisions
* 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
* Sherry Wang, Chinese-American statistician, applied Bayesian modeling and machine learning to computer security and genomics
* Sue-Jane Wang, biostatistician in the US Food and Drug Administration
* 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
* Clarice Weinberg, American environmental biostatistician and epidemiologist
* Lisa Weissfeld, American biostatistician, coauthor of pneumonia severity index and of WLW model in recurrent event analysis
* 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
* Margaret C. Wu, American biostatistician, expert on censored data
* Grace Wyshak, American biostatistician, used twin studies to link behavioral factors to health risks

## X

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* Xinyi Xu, Chinese-American Bayesian statistician

## Y

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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
* Cleo Youtz (1909–2005), long-time research assistant of Frederick Mosteller
* Ruriko Yoshida, Japanese-American combinatorist, statistician, phylogeneticist, and operations researcher
* Bin Yu, Chinese–American statistician, president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
* Lilly Yue, Statistician in the US Food & Drug Administration, expert on real-world evidence

## Z

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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
* Chunming Zhang, Chinese-American nonparametric statistician and neuroscientist
* Emma Zhang, Chinese–American statistician of complex systems
* Hao Helen Zhang, Chinese–American expert in nonparametric statistics, data mining, and machine learning
* Hongmei Zhang, Chinese-American biostatistician, expert in epigenetics
* Lan Zhang, Chinese-American financial econometrician
* Linda Zhao, Chinese-American statistician, applies machine learning to real estate pricing
* Tian Zheng, Chinese-American applied statistician, studies complex data for social networks, bioinformatics, and geoscience
* Wenxuan Zhong, Chinese-American statistician, expert on big data
* Jun Zhu, American statistician and entomologist interested in spatio-temporal data and environmental statistics
* Ilze Ziedins, New Zealand queueing theorist, expert on stochastic networks
* Rebecca Zwick, American expert on educational assessment and college admissions

## See also

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* Caucus for Women in Statistics
* List of female scientists
* List of women in mathematics

## References

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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.