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
Sarah Abramowitz (born 1967), American statistics educator and textbook author
Sophie Achard (born 1977), French statistical neuroscientist
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

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
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
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

Kate Calder, American expert on spatiotemporal Bayesian modeling
Marion Campbell, Scottish medical statistician and academic administrator
Ann R. Cannon, American statistics educator
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
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

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
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

E

Lynn Eberly, American researcher in longitudinal studies, medical imaging, and other forms of correlated data
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
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

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
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
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
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
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

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
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

I

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
Julie Ivy, American health care statistician, applies systems engineering to health care and to food bank distribution

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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
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

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
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
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
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

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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
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
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

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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
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
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

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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

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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

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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
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

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

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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
Dooti Roy, Indian statistician known for her work and passion in clinical trial diversity
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

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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
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
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
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

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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

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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

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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
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

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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

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Xinyi Xu, Chinese-American Bayesian statistician

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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

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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
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

References

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

[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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