List of women in statistics

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

A

• Edith Abbott (1876–1957), American economist, social worker, educator, and author
• Dorothy Adkins (1912–1975), psychologist concentrating on psychometrics
• Laura Ahtime, chief executive of the Seychelles National Bureau of Statistics
• Beatrice Aitchison (1908–1997), transportation economist who became the top woman in the United States Postal Service
• Martha Aliaga (1937–2011), Argentine statistics educator and president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics
• Naomi Altman, Canadian–American biostatistician known for her work in kernel methods
• Arlene Ash, American statistician who works on risk adjustment in health services
• Deborah Ashby (1959–), British statistician who specialises in medical statistics and Bayesian statistics

B

• Rose Baker, British physicist, mathematician, and statistician
• 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 (1947– ), British statistician who works in the design of experiments and the analysis of variance
• Karen Bandeen-Roche, American biostatistician known for her research on aging
• Mildred Barnard (1908–2000), Australian biometrician, mathematician and statistician
• Kaye Basford, Australian statistician and biometrician who applies statistical methods to plant genetics
• Nancy Bates, senior researcher at the United States Census Bureau
• M. J. Bayarri (1956–2014), Spanish Bayesian statistician, president of International Society for Bayesian Analysis
• Betsy Becker, American researcher on meta-analysis and educational psychometrics
• Grace Bediako, former head of Ghana Statistical Service
• Rebecca Betensky, biostatistician at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital
• Lynne Billard (1943–), Australian-American AIDS researcher, president of American Statistical Association and International Biometric Society
• Sheila Bird (1952–), British biostatistician whose assessment of misuse of statistics led to statistical guidelines for medical journals
• Yvonne Bishop (–2015), American expert in multivariate analysis who studied anaesthetics and air pollution
• Lenore E. Bixby (–1994), American statistician who worked with the Social Security Administration and National Academy of Sciences
• Erin Blankenship, American statistics educator
• 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
• Connie M. Borror (1966–2016), American statistician and industrial engineer interested in quality control and forensic toxicology
• K. O. Bowman (1927–), Japanese-American statistician, approximated the distribution of maximum likelihood estimators, advocates for people with disabilities
• Dorothy Brady (1903–1977), American professor of economics at the Wharton School
• Donna Brogan (1939–), American statistician who works in mental health statistics and analysis of complex survey data
• Jennifer Brown, New Zealand environmental statistician, president of the New Zealand Statistical Association
• Margaret K. Butler (1924–2013), statistician at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, developed software for nuclear simulations
• Christine Bycroft, New Zealand statistician and demographer

C

Kate Claghorn became the first female ASA Fellow.

• Kate Calder, American expert on spatiotemporal Bayesian modeling
• 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 (1925–), explored issues with the use and perception of primary medical care in Britain
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Gerda Claeskens, Belgian expert on model selection and model averaging
• Kate Claghorn (1864–1938), American sociologist, economist, statistician, legal scholar, and Progressive Era activist
• 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
• 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

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
• Florence Nightingale David (1909–1993), English statistician, winner of first Elizabeth L. Scott Award
• Susmita Datta, Indian–American biostatistician and Bengali folk musician
• Marie Davidian, American biostatistician known for her work in longitudinal data analysis and precision medicine
• Angela Dean, British expert in design of experiments
• Charmaine Dean (1958–), statistician from Trinidad, president of International Biometric Society and Statistical Society of Canada
• Charlotte Deane (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
• Marie Diener-West, American statistician, ophthalmologist, and expert on clinical trials
• E. Jacquelin Dietz, American statistics educator, founding editor of the Journal of Statistics Education
• Kim-Anh Do, Australian biostatistician of Vietnamese descent at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Annette Dobson (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
• 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 (1946–), Chief Executive of the UK Office for National Statistics and head of the Government Statistical Service

E

• Lynn Eberly, American researcher in longitudinal studies, medical imaging, and other forms of correlated data
• Constance van Eeden (1927–), Dutch nonparameteric statistician who contributed to the development of statistics in Canada
• 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
• Jane Elliott (1966–), British sociologist who uses longitudinal methods to explore issues of gender and employment
• Kathy Ensor, American statistician who discovered correlations between ozone and heart attacks

F

• Evelyn Fix (1904–1965), American statistician who invented the nearest neighbor method
• Nancy Flournoy (1947–), American statistician known for the design of adaptive clinical trials and for the graft-versus-tumor effect in bone marrow transplants
• Rongwei Fu, biostatistician who uses meta-analysis to understand disease patterns
• Montserrat Fuentes, Spanish statistician who applies spatial analysis to atmospheric science

G

• Martha M. Gardner, American statistician associated with GE Global Research
• Sara van de Geer (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 (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
• Jean D. Gibbons (1938–), American expert in nonparametric statistics and a prolific author of books on statistics
• Irène Gijbels, Belgian mathematical statistician and expert in nonparametric statistics
• 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
• Amanda L. Golbeck, American biostatistician and academic administrator
• Lisa Goldberg, American mathematical finance scholar and statistician
• Rebecca Goldin, American director of the Statistical Assessment Service
• 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
• Mary W. Gray (1938–), author in applied statistics and founding president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
• Cindy Greenwood, Canadian statistician, winner of Krieger–Nelson Prize

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
• 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
• 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 who found a high incidence of claimed virgin births among American women
• 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 A. Hoeting, American statistician known for her work on Bayesian model averaging
• Heike Hofmann (1972–), researcher on interactive data visualization
• Susan P. Holmes, American statistician who applies nonparametric multivariate statistics, bootstrapping methods, and data visualization to biology
• Susan Horn, American biostatistician, developed models for in-practice use by clinicians
• Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, Jamaican–born American statistician known for her research in drug discovery and chemometrics
• Shelley Hurwitz, American biostatistician and expert in ethics for statisticians
• Aparna V. Huzurbazar, American statistician who uses graphical models to understand time-to-event data, sister of Snehalata
• Snehalata V. Huzurbazar, American statistician, known for her work in statistical genetics and statistical geology, sister of Aparna

I

• Lurdes Inoue, Japanese–Brazilian specialist in Bayesian inference
• Telba Irony, Brazilian–American statistician, operations researcher, and proponent of Bayesian statistics at the Food and Drug Administration

J

• Eva E. Jacobs (–2015), edited Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics and headed the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Division of Consumer Expenditure Surveys
• Jana Jurečková (1940–), Czech expert in nonparametric and robust statistics

K

• Karen Kafadar, American statistician, president of American Statistical Association
• Amarjot Kaur, Indian statistician, president of International Indian Statistical Association
• Sallie Keller McNulty (1956–), American statistician, president of American Statistical Association
• Sheryl F. Kelsey (1945–), first female statistics PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, made significant contributions to heart disease treatment
• Ingrid C. Kildegaard (–1984), American statistician and market researcher at the Advertising Research Foundation
• Mimi Kim, Harold and Muriel Block Chair in epidemiology and population health and head of biostatistics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Charlotte Kipling (1919–1992), English statistician, ichthyologist, and cryptographer
• Grace E. Kissling, chief statistician for the National Toxicology Program
• Daphne Koller (1968–), Israeli–American author of text and online course on probabilistic graphical models, 2004 MacArthur Fellow
• Mariana Kotzeva (1967–), Bulgarian statistician and econometrician, head of National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria and of Eurostat
• Mary Grace Kovar (1926–2015), American biostatistician at the National Center for Health Statistics
• Helena Chmura Kraemer, American biostatistician
• Frauke Kreuter, German researcher on in survey methodology, sampling error, and observational error
• Shonda Kuiper, American statistics educator
• Lynn Kuo (1949–), American statistician known for her work on Bayesian inference in phylogeny

L

• Nan Laird (1943– ), American biostatistician, discoverer of the EM algorithm
• Diane Lambert, American statistician known for zero-inflated models
• Kathleen Lamborn, American biostatistician known for her highly cited publications on glioma
• Julia Lane, New Zealand, British, and American economist and economic statistician
• Jodi Lapidus, American biostatistician interested in Native American health and injury prevention
• Lisa Morrissey LaVange, American biostatistician, president of American Statistical Association
• Nicole Lazar (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
• 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
• Elizaveta Levina, Russian–American mathematical statistician known for her work in high-dimensional statistics and covariance estimation
• Denise Lievesley, British director of Statistics at UNESCO, founder of the Institute for Statistics, and director of the UK Data Archive
• Shili Lin, American statistician who studies applications of statistics to genomic data
• Regina Liu, American statistician, invented simplicial depth

M

• Eleanor Josephine Macdonald (1906–2007), American cancer epidemiologist who established the first cancer registry in the US
• Cathie Marsh (1951–1993), British sociologist and statistician who made a case for the use of surveys in sociology
• 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
• 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
• Kerrie Mengersen (1962–), Australian director of the Bayesian Research and Applications Group at Queensland University of Technology
• Margaret Merrell (–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
• Leslie M. Moore, applies statistics to scientific experiments and simulations
• Motomi Mori, Japanese–American biostatistician who has studied hospital-acquired infections, bone marrow transplants, and personalized medicine
• June Morita, American statistics educator
• Susan Murphy (1958–), applies statistical methods to clinical trials of treatments for chronic and relapsing medical conditions
• Janet Myhre, founded Reed Institute for Decision Science at Claremont McKenna College

N

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
• Ethel Newbold (1882–1933), English epidemiologist and statistician, namesake of Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics
• Helen Alma Newton Turner (1908–1995), Australian authority on sheep genetics
• Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), English founder of modern nursing, pioneer in information visualization and statistical graphics
• Deborah A. Nolan, American statistician and statistics educator
• Sharon-Lise Normand, Canadian biostatistician who evaluates the quality of care provided by physicians and hospitals
• Delia North, a leader in statistics education in South Africa
• Janet L. Norwood (1923–2015), first female Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Vera Nyitrai (1926–2011), president of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office and first female chair of the United Nations Statistical Commission

O

• Sofia Olhede, British mathematical statistician known for her research on wavelets, graphons, and high-dimensional statistics
• Beatrice S. Orleans (–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

• Gladys L. Palmer (1895–1967), American social statistician known for her work on labor mobility and labor statistics
• Mari Palta, Swedish biostatistician, president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics
• Cristina Parel, first Filipino to earn a doctorate in statistics
• Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn, Spanish statistician and geoscientist
• Roxy Peck, American statistics educator
• Magda Peligrad, Romanian probability theorist known for her work on stochastic processes
• Sonia Petrone, Italian statistician who uses Bernstein polynomials in nonparametric Bayesian methods
• Dominique Picard (1953– ), French expert on the statistical applications of wavelets
• Elżbieta Pleszczyńska (1933– ), Polish statistician, disability rights activist
• Ruth Rice Puffer (1907–2002), led the Inter-American Investigation of Childhood Mortality at the Pan American Health Organization

Q

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

R

• Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, American expert on generalized linear mixed models with latent variables
• Kavita Ramanan, Indian–American probability theorist
• Lila Knudsen Randolph (–1965), chief statistician at the Food and Drug Administration
• Nalini Ravishanker, Indian statistician interested in time series analysis and applications to actuarial science, business, and transportation
• Carol K. Redmond, American biostatistician known for her research on breast cancer
• Nancy Reid (1952– ), Canadian theoretical statistician, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Statistical Society of Canada
• Gesine Reinert, German statistician at Oxford, expert on biological sequences and biological networks
• Gladys H. Reynolds, American statistician who did pioneering research on modeling sexually transmitted diseases
• Dorothy P. Rice (1922–2017), American health statistician who helped create the National Death Index
• Sylvia Richardson, French expert on Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for spatial statistics
• Naomi B. Robbins, American expert in data visualization
• Rosemary Roberts, statistics educator who led the creation of AP Statistics
• Kathryn Roeder, American statistician who laid the foundations for DNA forensics
• Judith Rousseau, French statistician who studies frequentist properties of Bayesian methods
• 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
• Pat Ruggles, American economist and social statistician who studies poverty
• Louise M. Ryan, Australian expert on the statistics of cancer and risk assessment in environmental health

S

• Mary D. Sammel, American biostatistician also known for her work with guide dogs
• Ester Samuel-Cahn (1933–), winner of the Israel Prize for her work in statistics
• Nora Cate Schaeffer, American sociologist and survey statistician
• Elizabeth Scott (1917–1988), applied statistics to astronomy and weather modification, promoted equal opportunity for women
• Marian Scott (1956– ), Scottish statistician specialising in environmental statistics and statistical modelling
• 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
• Juliet Popper Shaffer (1932–), American psychologist and statistician known for her research on multiple hypothesis testing
• 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
• Rosedith Sitgreaves (1915–1992), American researcher on random matrices and Kendall's W
• Elizabeth H. Slate, American statistician interested in the Bayesian statistics of longitudinal data and applications to health
• Aleksandra Slavković, American expert on statistical disclosure control, algebraic statistics, and applications in social science
• Kirstine Smith (1878–1939), Danish statistician, created the field of optimal design of experiments
• Victoria Stodden, American statistician focusing on the reproducibility of research in computational science
• S. Lynne Stokes, American expert on modeling non-sampling errors, mark and recapture methods, and opinion polls
• 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
• Nike Sun, American probability theorist studying phase transitions and counting complexity
• Deborah F. Swayne, American expert on information visualization who wrote the GGobi software package

T

• Irene Barnes Taeuber (1906–1974), American editor of Population Index who helped establish the science of demography
• Judith Tanur, American editor of the International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences
• Nancy Temkin, American statistician who works on the biostatistics of traumatic brain injury
• Dorothy Swaine Thomas (1899–1977), population growth expert who became first female president of the American Sociological Association
• Elizabeth A. Thompson (1949–), English-born American statistician, uses genetic data to infer relationships between individuals and populations
• Mary E. Thompson, Canadian statistician known for her work in tobacco control, and president of the Statistical Society of Canada
• Mary N. Torrey (1910–), American mathematical statistician and expert in quality control

U

• Jessica Utts (1952–), American parapsychologist, statistics educator, and president of the American Statistical Association

V

• Ingrid Van Keilegom (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 (1966–), Italian expert in wavelets, feature selection, and cluster analysis in Bayesian statistics
• Maria Eulália Vares, Brazilian expert in stochastic processes

W

• Grace Wahba (1934– ), American pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data
• Helen M. Walker (1891–1983), first female president of the American Statistical Association
• Katherine Wallman, Chief Statistician of the United States and president of the American Statistical Association
• Huixia Judy Wang, Chinese–American expert on quantile regression
• Jane-Ling Wang, studies dimension reduction, functional data analysis, and aging
• 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
• Ann E. Watkins, American statistics educator, president of the Mathematical Association of America
• Ying Wei, Chinese statistician interested in quantile regression and semiparametric models of longitudinal data
• Nanny Wermuth (1943– ), German and Swedish expert in graphical Markov models and their applications in the life sciences
• 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
• Ruth J. Williams, American probability theorist, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, member of National Academy of Sciences
• Susan R. Wilson (1948–), Australian statistician known for studying biostatistics, statistical genetics, and the spread of AIDS in Australia
• Daniela Witten, American biostatistician interested in machine learning and high-dimensional data
• 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 (–1989), American biostatistician and epidemiologist, second tenured woman at the Harvard School of Public Health

Y

• 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 (1952–), Chief Mathematical Statistician at the National Agricultural Statistics Service
• Bin Yu, Chinese–American statistician, president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Z

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

See also

• List of female scientists
• List of women in mathematics

References