List of women in statistics

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

A

• Helen Abbey (1915–2001), American biostatistician known for prolific mentorship of students
• Edith Abbott (1876–1957), American economist, social worker, educator, and author
• Sarah Abramowitz (born 1967), American statistics educator and textbook author
• Sophie Achard (born 1977), French statistical neuroscientist
• 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
• 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
• 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 Claghorn became the first female ASA Fellow.

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

J

• Eva E. Jacobs (died 2015), edited Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics and headed the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Division of Consumer Expenditure Surveys
• Janis Johnston (born 1957), American statistician and sociologist, author of several books on permutation tests in statistics
• 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
• Ruth King, British expert on the Bayesian analysis of population size
• Charlotte Kipling (1919–1992), English statistician, ichthyologist, and cryptographer
• Grace E. Kissling, chief statistician for the National Toxicology Program
• Claudia Klüppelberg, German mathematical statistician and applied probability theorist, known for risk assessment and statistical finance
• Inge Koch, Australian statistician, author and advocate for gender diversity in mathematics
• Daphne Koller (born 1968), Israeli–American author of text and online course on probabilistic graphical models, 2004 MacArthur Fellow
• Olga Korosteleva, Russian-American statistician and author of statistics books
• Hildegarde Kneeland (1889–1994), American home economist, social statistician, and expert on time-use research
• Mariana Kotzeva (born 1967), Bulgarian statistician and econometrician, head of National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria and of Eurostat
• Mary Grace Kovar (1926–2015), American biostatistician at the National Center for Health Statistics
• Helena Chmura Kraemer, American biostatistician
• Frauke Kreuter, German researcher on in survey methodology, sampling error, and observational error
• Tatyana Krivobokova, Kazakh statistician, expert on spline smoothing
• Shonda Kuiper, American statistics educator
• Lynn Kuo (born 1949), American statistician known for her work on Bayesian inference in phylogeny
• Bärbel-Maria Kurth (born 1954), German statistician and epidemiologist

L

• Nan Laird (born 1943), American biostatistician, discoverer of the EM algorithm
• Helen Humes Lamale (1912–1998), American labor statistician
• Diane Lambert, American statistician known for zero-inflated models
• Kathleen Lamborn, American biostatistician known for her highly cited publications on glioma
• 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

M

• Shujie Ma, Chinese-American expert in nonparametric and semiparametric regression
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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
• Johanna G. Nešlehová, Czech-Canadian mathematical statistician, known for work on copula modeling and operational risk
• Anna Nevius, American biostatistician and expert in veterinary medicine
• Ethel Newbold (1882–1933), English epidemiologist and statistician, namesake of Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics
• Helen Alma Newton Turner (1908–1995), Australian authority on sheep genetics
• Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), English founder of modern nursing, pioneer in information visualization and statistical graphics
• Jing Ning, Chinese-American biostatistician
• Deborah A. Nolan, American statistician and statistics educator
• Sharon-Lise Normand, Canadian biostatistician who evaluates the quality of care provided by physicians and hospitals
• Delia North, a leader in statistics education in South Africa
• Janet L. Norwood (1923–2015), first female Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Paula Norwood, American biostatistician, worked in pharmaceutical industry
• Sarah Nusser (born 1957), American survey statistician
• Regina Nuzzo, American statistician, science communicator, and teacher of statistics to the deaf
• Philomena Nyarko, chief executive of the Ghana Statistical Service
• Vera Nyitrai (1926–2011), president of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office and first female chair of the United Nations Statistical Commission

O

• Nancy Obuchowski (born 1962), American biostatistician and radiologist
• Laura O'Dwyer, Irish-American statistician, performs statistical analyses of science education outcomes
• Judith O'Fallon, American medical statistician
• Sofia Olhede, British mathematical statistician known for her research on wavelets, graphons, and high-dimensional statistics
• Beatrice S. Orleans (died 2011), chief statistician in the US Naval Sea Systems Command
• Mollie Orshansky (1915–2006), American economist and statistician, set poverty thresholds for household income

P

• 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

Q

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

R

• Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, American expert on generalized linear mixed models with latent variables
• Kavita Ramanan, Indian–American probability theorist
• Lila Knudsen Randolph (1908–1965), chief statistician at the Food and Drug Administration
• Nalini Ravishanker, Indian statistician interested in time series analysis and applications to actuarial science, business, and transportation
• 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

S

• 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
• 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
• Mary Eleanor Spear (1897–1986), American data visualization specialist
• Donna Spiegelman, American biostatistician and epidemiologist
• Nancy Spruill, American statistician and defense acquisitions analyst
• 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

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
• 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
• Mary N. Torrey (born 1910), American mathematical statistician and expert in quality control
• Sherry Towers, American and Canadian statistician, studied contagion effect of mass shootings
• Andrea Troxel, American biostatistician, expert in behavioral economics in public health

U

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

V

• 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

W

• 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
• Sue-Jane Wang, biostatistician in the US Food and Drug Administration
• Marie Wann, American government statistician, president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
• Ann E. Watkins, American statistics educator, president of the Mathematical Association of America
• Kimberly Weems, American statistician active in mentoring women and members of underrepresented groups
• Ying Wei, Chinese statistician interested in quantile regression and semiparametric models of longitudinal data
• Clarice Weinberg, American environmental biostatistician and epidemiologist
• Lisa Weissfeld, American biostatistician, coauthor of pneumonia severity index and of WLW model in recurrent event analysis
• Joanne Wendelberger, American statistician and a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Nanny Wermuth (born 1943), German and Swedish expert in graphical Markov models and their applications in the life sciences
• Jessamine S. Whitney (1880–1941), American statistician and public health professional
• Alice S. Whittemore, American group theorist, biostatistician, and epidemiologist who studies the effects of genetics and lifestyle on cancer
• Aryness Joy Wickens (1901–1991), American labor statistician and president of the American Statistical Association
• Rebecca Willett, American statistician and computer scientist working in machine learning, signal processing, and data science
• Ruth J. Williams, American probability theorist, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, member of National Academy of Sciences
• Alyson Wilson (born 1967), American expert on Bayesian reliability and military statistics
• Susan R. Wilson (born 1948), Australian statistician known for studying biostatistics, statistical genetics, and the spread of AIDS in Australia
• Sharon Witherspoon (born 1956), British Head of Policy of the Academy of Social Sciences, founding researcher of British Social Attitudes Survey
• Daniela Witten, American biostatistician interested in machine learning and high-dimensional data
• Janet Wittes, American statistician and statistical consultant specializing in clinical trials
• Frances Wood (1883–1919), English medical statistician, namesake of Wood medal of Royal Statistical Society
• Hilda Mary Woods (1892–1971), British epidemiologist, first female lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Jane Worcester (died 1989), American biostatistician and epidemiologist, second tenured woman at the Harvard School of Public Health
• Margaret Wu, Australian statistician, developed estimators for genetic diversity
• Margaret C. Wu, American biostatistician, expert on censored data
• Grace Wyshak, American biostatistician, used twin studies to link behavioral factors to health risks

X

• Xinyi Xu, Chinese-American Bayesian statistician

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 (born 1952), Chief Mathematical Statistician at the National Agricultural Statistics Service
• Cleo Youtz (1909–2005), long-time research assistant of Frederick Mosteller
• Ruriko Yoshida, Japanese-American combinatorist, statistician, phylogeneticist, and operations researcher
• Bin Yu, Chinese–American statistician, president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• Lilly Yue, Statistician in the US Food & Drug Administration, expert on real-world evidence

Z

• 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
• 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
• Rebecca Zwick, American expert on educational assessment and college admissions

See also

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