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
 * Małgorzata Bogdan, Polish mathematical statistician
 * Jane M. Booker, American statistician, expert in expert elicitation and fuzzy logic
 * Connie M. Borror (1966–2016), American statistician and industrial engineer interested in quality control and forensic toxicology
 * Bertha C. Boschulte (1906–2004), Virgin Islands educator, women's rights activist, statistician and politician
 * Claire McKay Bowen, American statistician, expert in data privacy
 * Kimiko O. Bowman (1927–2019), Japanese-American statistician, approximated the distribution of maximum likelihood estimators, advocated for people with disabilities
 * Veronica Bowman, British military statistician known for her work aggregating COVID-19 predictions
 * Barbara Boyes (circa 1932 – 1981), American government survey statistician
 * Dorothy Brady (1903–1977), American professor of economics at the Wharton School
 * Amy Braverman, American statistician, analyzes remote sensing data and climate models
 * Erica Brittain, American biostatistician, expert on clinical trials and hypothesis testing
 * Donna Brogan (born 1939), American statistician who works in mental health statistics and analysis of complex survey data
 * Eileen Brooke (1905–1989), British statistician and health policy professional
 * Jennifer Brown, New Zealand environmental statistician, president of the New Zealand Statistical Association
 * Cavell Brownie, Jamaican-American expert on wildlife statistics and capture-recapture methods
 * Laurence Broze (born 1960), Belgian applied mathematician, statistician, and economist
 * Babette Brumback, American biostatistician, expert on causal inference
 * Antonella Buccianti (born 1960), Italian geostatistician, expert on compositional data
 * Caitlin E. Buck (born 1964), British archaeologist and statistician known for her work in radiocarbon dating
 * Florentina Bunea (born 1966), Romanian statistician interested in machine learning, empirical processes, and high-dimensional statistics
 * Lynne Butler (born 1955), American combinatorialist and mathematical statistician
 * Margaret K. Butler (1924–2013), statistician at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, developed software for nuclear simulations
 * Cristina Butucea, French statistician known for her work on non-parametric statistics, density estimation, and deconvolution
 * Christine Bycroft, New Zealand statistician and demographer

C

 * Kate Calder, American expert on spatiotemporal Bayesian modeling
 * Marion Campbell, Scottish medical statistician and academic administrator
 * Ann R. Cannon, American statistics educator
 * Lynda Carlson (born 1943), American government statistician, director of National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
 * Alexandra Carpentier (born 1987), French mathematical statistician and machine learning researcher
 * Alicia L. Carriquiry, Uruguayan statistician, applies Bayesian statistics to nutrition, genomics, forensics, and traffic safety
 * Mavis B. Carroll (1917–2009), American statistician who pioneered the industrial use of statistics at General Foods
 * Carol S. Carson, American economic statistician, director of Bureau of Economic Analysis, director of statistics for International Monetary Fund
 * Ann Cartwright (born 1925), explored issues with the use and perception of primary medical care in Britain
 * Ana Casís, Panamanian sociologist, statistician, and demographer
 * Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Turkish statistics educator known for her open source textbooks
 * Kathryn Chaloner (1954–2014), expert in Bayesian experimental design, worked on HIV, AIDS, infectious diseases, and women's health
 * Beth Chance (born 1968), American statistics educator
 * Anne Chao, Taiwanese environmental statistician known for her work on mark and recapture methods
 * Enid Charles (1894–1972), British pioneer in demography and population statistics and expert on fertility rates
 * Helen C. Chase, president of Statistics Section of American Public Health Association
 * Valérie Chavez-Demoulin, Swiss expert on extreme events and risk management
 * Cathy Woan-Shu Chen, Taiwanese statistician interested in Bayesian methods and economic statistics
 * Jie Chen, Chinese–American professor of biostatistics and epidemiology and expert on change detection
 * Debbie Cheng, American biostatistician, researches applied statistics and clinical trial design
 * Ming-Yen Cheng, Chinese statistician specializing in nonparametric regression
 * Amanda Chetwynd, British combinatorist and spatial statistician
 * Francesca Chiaromonte, Italian statistician, expert on statistical genetics and dimensionality reduction
 * Marcia Ciol, Brazilian-American expert on comorbidity
 * Constance F. Citro (born 1942), American political scientist and statistician, director of the Committee on National Statistics
 * Gerda Claeskens, Belgian expert on model selection and model averaging
 * Kate Claghorn (1864–1938), American sociologist, economist, statistician, legal scholar, and Progressive Era activist
 * Cynthia Clark (born 1942), American government statistician, executive director of Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
 * Virginia A. Clark (1928–2018), American biostatistician and statistics textbook author
 * Merlise A. Clyde, American statistician known for her work in model averaging for Bayesian statistics
 * Clara Collet (1860–1948), British social reformer who collected statistical and descriptive evidence of life for working women and poor people
 * Katharine Coman (1857-1915), American historian, economist, sociologist, educator, and social activist, first woman to teach statistics in the US
 * Fabienne Comte, French financial statistician, expert on stochastic volatility, autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity, and deconvolution
 * Alanna Connors (1956–2013), Hong Kong-born American astronomer and statistician, introduced Bayesian statistics to high-energy astronomy
 * Delores Conway, American statistician, expert on real estate markets
 * Dianne Cook, Australian editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
 * Cathy A. Cowan, American economist and social scientist
 * Gertrude Mary Cox (1900–1978), researcher on experimental design, president of the American Statistical Association
 * Stella Cunliffe (1917–2012), British statistician, first female president of the Royal Statistical Society
 * Adele Cutler, English-born New Zealand and American statistician who developed archetypal analysis and random forests
 * Claudia Czado, German expert on copulas, vines, and their applications in statistical finance
 * Veronica Czitrom, Mexican-American statistician, applied statistics to the quality control of semiconductor manufacturing

D

 * Dorota Dabrowska, Polish statistician known for her research on counting processes and survival analysis
 * Estelle Bee Dagum, Argentine–Canadian–Italian expert in time series and seasonal adjustment
 * Angela Dale (born 1945) British statistician known for secondary analysis of government survey data
 * Sarah Darby, British epidemiologist and medical statistician
 * Nairanjana Dasgupta, Indian statistician, expert on large-scale multiple testing and on the statistics of apple growth
 * Susmita Datta, Indian–American biostatistician and Bengali folk musician
 * Florence Nightingale David (1909–1993), English statistician, winner of first Elizabeth L. Scott Award
 * Marie Davidian, American biostatistician known for her work in longitudinal data analysis and precision medicine
 * Beth Dawson, American biostatistician and biostatistics textbook author
 * Besse Day (1889–1986), American statistician who pioneered the use of design of experiments in engineering
 * Maria De Iorio (born 1972) Italian statistician, uses Bayesian methods in bioinformatics
 * Angela Dean, British expert in design of experiments
 * Charmaine Dean (born 1958), statistician from Trinidad, president of International Biometric Society and Statistical Society of Canada
 * Charlotte Deane (born 1975), statistician and bioinformatics researcher focused on the protein structure of antibodies
 * Aurore Delaigle, Australian expert in nonparametric statistics, deconvolution and functional data analysis
 * Elizabeth DeLong, American biostatistician interested in outcomes research and comparative effectiveness
 * Jill DeMatteis, American statistician specializing in survey methodology
 * Rebecca DerSimonian, American biostatistician, introduced random-effects meta-analysis and its application in clinical trials
 * Jill Dever, American survey statistician
 * Susan J. Devlin, American statistician, expert on robust statistics and local regression
 * María del Pilar Díaz, Argentine statistician
 * Marie Diener-West, American statistician, ophthalmologist, and expert on clinical trials
 * Paula Diehr, American biostatistician and health systems researcher
 * E. Jacquelin Dietz, American statistics educator, founding editor of the Journal of Statistics Education
 * Cathryn S. Dippo, American government statistician
 * Susanne Ditlevsen, Danish mathematical biologist and biostatistician
 * Kim-Anh Do, Australian biostatistician of Vietnamese descent at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
 * Lori E. Dodd, American biostatistician specializing in clinical trial methodology
 * Deborah Donnell, New Zealand and American biostatistician, expert on HIV prevention
 * Annette Dobson (born 1945), Australian researcher in biostatistics, epidemiology, longitudinal studies, and social determinants of health
 * Rebecca Doerge, American researcher in statistical bioinformatics, known for her research on quantitative traits
 * Francesca Dominici, Italian statistician who performs collaborative research on projects that combine big data with health policy and climate change
 * Christl Donnelly, uses statistics and biomathematics to study epidemiological patterns of infectious diseases
 * Miriam Gasko Donoho, American statistician, expert on binary regression, survival analysis, robust regression, and data visualization
 * Sandrine Dudoit, applies statistics to microarray and genetic data, co-founder of Bioconductor project
 * Vanja Dukic, American biostatistician who uses internet search patterns to track diseases
 * Olive Jean Dunn (1915–2008), American statistician, contributed to the development of confidence intervals in biostatistics
 * Karen Dunnell (born 1946), Chief Executive of the UK Office for National Statistics and head of the Government Statistical Service
 * Debbie Dupuis, Canadian statistician, applies decision science and robust statistics to statistical finance and environmental statistics
 * Josée Dupuis, Canadian and American biostatistician, president of International Genetic Epidemiology Society

E

 * Lynn Eberly, American researcher in longitudinal studies, medical imaging, and other forms of correlated data
 * Constance van Eeden (1927–2021), Dutch nonparameteric statistician who contributed to the development of statistics in Canada
 * Nathalie Eisenbaum, French probability theorist
 * Janet D. Elashoff, director of biostatistics for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
 * Ethel M. Elderton (1878–1954), British eugenics researcher
 * Marie D. Eldridge (1926–2009), director of statistics and analysis at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
 * Susan S. Ellenberg, American biostatistician, expert in the design of clinical trials and in the safety of medical devices
 * Jane Elliott (born 1966), British sociologist who uses longitudinal methods to explore issues of gender and employment
 * Lila Elveback (1915–2004), American biostatistician, founder of American College of Epidemiology
 * Kathy Ensor, American statistician who discovered correlations between ozone and heart attacks
 * Elena Erosheva, Russian social statistician
 * Sylvia Esterby, Canadian environmental statistician, founder of the International Environmetrics Society
 * Alison Etheridge (born 1964), English researcher in theoretical population genetics and mathematical ecology
 * Ruth Etzioni, biostatistician, develops statistical computer models of cancer progression

F

 * Yingying Fan, American mathematical statistician and data scientist
 * Polly Feigl, American biostatistician, expert on survival distributions and cancer clinical trials
 * Eleanor Feingold, American statistical geneticist
 * Rachel Fewster, British and New Zealand environmental statistician and statistical ecologist
 * Krista Fischer, Estonian biostatistician
 * Carol Fitz-Gibbon (1938–2017), British expert and activist in education evaluation
 * Evelyn Fix (1904–1965), American statistician who invented the nearest neighbor method
 * Betty Flehinger (c. 1922 – 2000), American biostatistician, pioneer of computerized medical diagnosis
 * Nancy Flournoy (born 1947), American statistician known for the design of adaptive clinical trials and for the graft-versus-tumor effect in bone marrow transplants
 * Emily B. Fox, American statistician, expert in Bayesian modeling of time series and in Monte Carlo methods
 * Liliana Forzani, Argentine applied mathematician and statistician, expert in dimensionality reduction
 * Christine A. Franklin, American statistics educator
 * Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter (born 1959), Austrian statistician working in Bayesian inference, president of International Society for Bayesian Analysis
 * Rongwei Fu, biostatistician who uses meta-analysis to understand disease patterns
 * Montserrat Fuentes, Spanish statistician who applies spatial analysis to atmospheric science
 * Cathy Furlong, American statistician active in volunteer work for statistical organizations, president of Statistics Without Borders

G

 * Linda Gage, California state demographer
 * Margaret Gamalo, Filipino-American biostatistician and drug development executive
 * Nina Gantert, Swiss and German probability theorist
 * Nancy L. Garcia, Brazilian spatial statistician
 * Tanya P. Garcia, Peruvian-American biostatistician, applies robust statistics to Huntington's disease
 * Martha M. Gardner, American statistician associated with GE Global Research
 * Joan Garfield, American educational psychologist specializing in statistics education
 * Élisabeth Gassiat (born 1961), French mathematical statistician
 * Ursula Gather (born 1953), German robust statistician, rector of TU Dortmund
 * Geneviève Gauthier (born 1967), Canadian financial mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist
 * Sara van de Geer (born 1958), Dutch statistician, president of the Bernoulli Society
 * Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), Austrian researcher on Fourier series, statistics, probability, and plasticity, refugee from Nazi Germany
 * Yulia Gel, American expert in the nonparametric statistics of spatiotemporal data
 * Nancy Geller (born 1944), director of biostatistics research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
 * Maria-Pia Geppert (1907–1997), German mathematician and biostatistician who founded the Biometrical Journal
 * Misrak Gezmu, Ethiopian-American biostatistician
 * Nadia Ghazzali (born 1961), Moroccan-Canadian expert on numbers of clusters and university president
 * Jean D. Gibbons (born 1938), American expert in nonparametric statistics and a prolific author of books on statistics
 * Irène Gijbels, Belgian mathematical statistician and expert in nonparametric statistics
 * María Ángeles Gil (born 1953), Spanish fuzzy statistician
 * Ethel Gilbert, American expert in the risks of radiation-induced cancer
 * Krista Gile, American expert on respondent-driven sampling and exponential random graph models
 * Dorothy M. Gilford (1919–2014), head of mathematical statistics at the Office of Naval Research and of the National Center for Education Statistics
 * Ingrid Kristine Glad (born 1965), Norwegian statistician, expert in non-parametric regression, microarray data, and image processing
 * Beth Gladen, American statistician known for children's environmental health and prevalence estimation
 * Amanda L. Golbeck, American biostatistician and academic administrator
 * Judith Goldberg, American biostatistician, founder of NYU biostatistics division
 * Lisa Goldberg, American mathematical finance scholar and statistician
 * Rebecca Goldin, American director of the Statistical Assessment Service
 * Christina Goldschmidt, British probability theorist
 * Graciela González Farías, Mexican statistician, expert on shape parameters of skewed data
 * María Elena González Mederos (1932–1996), Cuban-American government statistician, poetry translator, and human rights activist
 * Melody Goodman, American biostatistician interested in social risk factors, health literacy, and stakeholder engagement
 * Nancy Gordon, American economist and statistician, president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
 * Carol A. Gotway Crawford, American expert in biostatistics, spatial analysis, environmental statistics, and public health
 * Selma Fine Goldsmith (1912–1962), American economic statistician who estimated personal income distribution
 * Patricia Grambsch, American biostatistician, expert on proportional hazards models
 * Mary W. Gray (born 1938), author in applied statistics and founding president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
 * Celia Greenwood, Canadian biostatistician and statistical geneticist
 * Cindy Greenwood, Canadian statistician, winner of Krieger–Nelson Prize
 * Clare Griffiths, British expert in mortality statistics
 * Emily H. Griffith, American spatial statistician and statistics educator
 * Ulrike Grömping, German expert on regression analysis with variable importance
 * Montserrat Guillén (born 1964), Spanish expert in actuarial statistics, fraud detection, and kernel density estimation
 * Marcia Gumpertz, American agricultural statistician, uses statistics to study employment of women and minorities in STEM
 * Ying Guo, Chinese-American biostatistician and neuroimaging researcher
 * Margaret Gurney (1908–2002), American mathematician, survey statistician, and pioneering computer programmer

H

 * Margaret Jarman Hagood (1907–1963), president of the Population Association of America
 * Marjorie Hahn, American probability theorist and tennis player
 * Linda M. Haines, English and South African expert in the design of experiments
 * Susan Halabi, American biostatistician known for her research on prostate cancer
 * Betz Halloran, biostatistician who studies causal inference and the biostatistics of infectious diseases
 * Katherine Halvorsen, American statistician and statistics educator
 * Ellen Hamaker (born 1974), Dutch-American psychologist and statistician, analyzes longitudinal data in psychology
 * Asta Hampe, German engineer and statistician and first German member of the Women's Engineering Society
 * Bronwyn Harch, Australian environmental statistician, applies mathematical sciences to agriculture, environment, health, manufacturing and energy
 * Alison Harcourt, Australian mathematician and statistician known for branch and bound algorithms and quantification of poverty in Australia
 * Jo Hardin, American statistician who develops high-throughput methods for human genome data
 * Rachel M. Harter, American expert on small area estimation and survey methodology
 * Dominique Haughton, French-American statistician specializing in business analytics, standards of living, and music analytics
 * Lee-Ann C. Hayek, chief mathematical statistician at the National Museum of Natural History
 * Martha S. Hearron (1943–2014), American statistician, helped found and later headed the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
 * Nancy E. Heckman, Canadian statistician interested in nonparametric regression, smoothing, functional data analysis, and applications in evolutionary biology
 * Inge Henningsen (born 1941), Danish statistician and feminist
 * Amy H. Herring, American biostatistician and public health researcher working on methods for correlated data
 * Vicki Hertzberg, American biostatistician and public health researcher
 * Agnes M. Herzberg, first female president of the Statistical Society of Canada
 * Irene Hess, American expert on survey methodology for scientific surveys
 * Jennifer Hill, American statistician, applies causal inference to social statistics
 * MaryAnn Hill, American statistical software developer
 * Susan Hinkins, American government and survey statistician, expert on human rights
 * Ho Weang Kee, Malaysian statistical geneticist
 * Jennifer A. Hoeting, American statistician known for her work on Bayesian model averaging
 * Heike Hofmann (born 1972), researcher on interactive data visualization
 * Susan P. Holmes, American statistician who applies nonparametric multivariate statistics, bootstrapping methods, and data visualization to biology
 * Virginia Thompson Holran, American expert on the statistics of life insurance
 * Susan Horn, American biostatistician, developed models for in-practice use by clinicians
 * Carol House, American government statistician specializing in agricultural statistics
 * Chao Agnes Hsiung, Taiwanese biostatistician, president of International Chinese Statistical Association
 * Joan Hu, Chinese–Canadian statistician, researcher on pseudolikelihood, estimating functions, missing data, and applications
 * 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
 * Marlene Kretschmer, German statistician and climatologist, applies causal inference to climate change
 * Frauke Kreuter, German researcher on in survey methodology, sampling error, and observational error
 * Tatyana Krivobokova, Kazakh statistician, expert on spline smoothing
 * Shonda Kuiper, American statistics educator
 * Lynn Kuo (born 1949), American statistician known for her work on Bayesian inference in phylogeny
 * Ana Kupresanin, Croatian-American statistician, head of scientific data at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
 * Bärbel-Maria Kurth (born 1954), German statistician and epidemiologist

L

 * 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
 * Yanyuan Ma, Chinese-American expert in semiparametric statistics and dimension reduction
 * Marloes Maathuis (born 1978), Dutch statistician, researcher on causal inference
 * Eleanor Josephine Macdonald (1906–2007), American cancer epidemiologist who established the first cancer registry in the US
 * Brenda MacGibbon, Canadian mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist
 * Helen MacGillivray, Australian statistician, president of International Statistical Institute and Statistical Society of Australia
 * Winifred Mackenzie (1896–1954), English statistician and missionary
 * Jennifer Madans, American health statistician, acting director of National Center for Health Statistics
 * Linda Malone (born 1944), American statistician, textbook author, and industrial engineer
 * Amita Manatunga, Sri Lankan biostatistician
 * Elizabeth Margosches, American statistician at the US Environmental Protection Agency
 * Nancy Mann, American statistician known for her research on quality management, reliability estimation, and the Weibull distribution
 * Elizabeth Mannshardt, American environmental statistician, studies climate change and extremes of weather and climate
 * Angela Mariotto, Italian statistician, expert on cancer progress measures
 * Cathie Marsh (1951–1993), British sociologist and statistician who made a case for the use of surveys in sociology
 * Elizabeth A. Martin, American census statististian, introduced cognitive science principles to surveys and improved count of homeless
 * Gael M. Martin, Australian Bayesian econometrician
 * Margaret P. Martin (1915–2012), American biostatistician, published a series of papers on maternal and infant nutrition
 * Wendy L. Martinez, American statistician, author of two books on MATLAB and coordinating editor of Statistics Surveys
 * Rochelle Martinez, American government statistician
 * Hélène Massam, Canadian statistician known for her research on the Wishart distribution and on graphical models
 * Jil Matheson, former National Statistician of the UK
 * Nancy Mathiowetz, American sociologist and statistician, combined cognitive psychology with survey methodology
 * Deborah Mayo, frequentist statistician and professor of philosophy of science at Virginia Tech; author of books on probability and risk management
 * Sally McClean, Northern Irish statistician, computer scientist, and operations researcher
 * Leslie McClure, American biostatistician, champion for diversity, and statistics blogger
 * Kelly McConville, American statistics educator and survey and environmental statistician
 * Laura McKenna, American census statistician, expert on statistical disclosure control
 * Lisa McShane, American biostatistician, oncologist, and expert on biomarkers and biometrics
 * Fabrizia Mealli (born 1966), Italian researcher on causal inference, missing data, and the statistics of employment
 * Elizabeth Meckes, American probability theorist
 * Kerrie Mengersen (born 1962), Australian director of the Bayesian Research and Applications Group at Queensland University of Technology
 * Margaret Merrell (1900–1995), American biostatistician known for her research on the construction of life tables
 * Ida Craven Merriam (1904–1997), American Social Security economist and statistician who founded the National Academy of Social Insurance
 * Jacqueline Meulman (born 1954), Dutch expert in multivariate analysis
 * Mary C. Meyer, American expert in nonparametric density estimation with shape constraints
 * Weiwen Miao, Chinese-American expert on legal statistics
 * Ruth Mickey (born 1954), American expert in selection of confounding variables
 * Diana Miglioretti, American biostatistician, expert on breast cancer screening and radiation hazards from medical imaging
 * Ana Fernández Militino, Spanish spatial statistician
 * Antonietta Mira, Italian expert in Markov chain Monte Carlo methods and in mathematical magic
 * Carmen A. Miró (1919–2022), Panamanian demographer
 * Nandita Mitra, American biostatistician, expert in causal inference, difference-in-difference, and health economics
 * Yash Mittal (born 1941), first female program director for probability at US National Science Foundation
 * Leyla Mohadjer, expert in survey methodology, total survey error, quality control, and participation bias
 * Francesca Molinari, Italian econometrician and economic and survey statistician
 * Katherine Monti, American statistician known for graphical methods and the statistics of pet health
 * Irene Montie (1921–2018), American statistician for the Census Bureau; president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
 * Erica Moodie, Canadian biostatistician, expert on dynamic treatment regimes
 * Leslie M. Moore, applies statistics to scientific experiments and simulations
 * Carolyn Morgan, American statistician and applied mathematician
 * Motomi Mori, Japanese–American biostatistician who has studied hospital-acquired infections, bone marrow transplants, and personalized medicine
 * June Morita, American statistics educator
 * Pamela Morse (c. 1923–2009), British and Canadian agricultural statistician
 * Alison Motsinger-Reif, American biostatistician and geneticist
 * Bhramar Mukherjee, Indian-American biostatistician, chair of COPSS
 * Mary Mulry, American census statistician
 * Susan Murphy (born 1958), applies statistical methods to clinical trials of treatments for chronic and relapsing medical conditions
 * Kary Myers, American expert on scientific data analysis and radiation monitoring
 * Janet Myhre, founded Reed Institute for Decision Science at Claremont McKenna College

N

 * 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
 * Huiyan Sang, Chinese-American spatial statistician
 * Marta Sanz-Solé (born 1952), Catalan researcher on stochastic processes, president of the European Mathematical Society
 * Sophie Schbath (born 1969), French statistician of patterns in strings and DNA
 * Nora Cate Schaeffer, American sociologist and survey statistician
 * Edna Schechtman (born 1948), Israeli expert on mean absolute difference methods, president of Israel Statistical Association
 * Alexandra M. Schmidt, Brazilian biostatistician and epidemiologist, president of ISBA
 * Elizabeth Scott (1917–1988), applied statistics to astronomy and weather modification, promoted equal opportunity for women
 * Marian Scott (born 1956), Scottish statistician specialising in environmental statistics and statistical modelling
 * Marilyn Seastrom (born 1951), American educational statistician
 * Paola Sebastiani, Italian biostatistician and genetic epidemiologist
 * Nell Sedransk, American statistician who directed the National Institute of Statistical Sciences
 * Esther Seiden (1908–2014), Polish–Israeli–American mathematical statistician known for her research on design of experiments and combinatorial design
 * Kimberly Sellers, American expert on count data, statistical dispersion, and the Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution
 * Diallo Sène (born 1952), Malian statistician, national minister for the promotion of women, children, and the family
 * Damla Şentürk, Turkish-American biostatistician, expert on longitudinal and functional analysis for autism and dialysis
 * Juliet Popper Shaffer (born 1932), American psychologist and statistician known for her research on multiple hypothesis testing
 * Nagambal Shah, Indian-American mathematician and statistician known for her mentorship of minority students
 * Julia Sharp, American statistician, expert on scientific statistical collaborations
 * Katrina Sharples, New Zealand biostatistician and violist
 * Lianne Sheppard, American expert on the health effects of air pollution
 * Mindel C. Sheps (1913–1973), Canadian physician, biostatistician and demographer
 * Stephanie Shipp, American economist and social statistician
 * Galit Shmueli, Israeli expert in business statistics, author of multiple textbooks
 * Holly Shulman, American reproductive health statistician
 * Debra T. Silverman, American biostatistician and cancer epidemiologist
 * Eleanor Singer, Austrian-born American expert on survey methodology
 * Judith D. Singer, American statistician known for her work on multilevel models, survival analysis, and individual growth models
 * Janet Sinsheimer, American statistical geneticist
 * Rosedith Sitgreaves (1915–1992), American researcher on random matrices and Kendall's W
 * Elizabeth H. Slate, American statistician interested in the Bayesian statistics of longitudinal data and applications to health
 * Aleksandra Slavković, American expert on statistical disclosure control, algebraic statistics, and applications in social science
 * Margaret Smagorinsky (1915–2011), American government statistician and meteorologist
 * Kirstine Smith (1878–1939), Danish statistician, created the field of optimal design of experiments
 * Leah M. Smith, Canadian biostatistician and cancer researcher
 * Joyce Snell (born 1930), British statistician known for her work on residuals and ordered categorical data, and for her books on statistics
 * Rui Song, Chinese-American statistician, expert on causal inference, independence screening, precision medicine, and financial statistics
 * Mary Eleanor Spear (1897–1986), American data visualization specialist
 * Donna Spiegelman, American biostatistician and epidemiologist
 * Nancy Spruill, American statistician and defense acquisitions analyst
 * Dalene Stangl, (1956–), American statistician, promoted use of Bayesian statistics in medicine and health policy
 * Joan Staniswalis (1957–2018), American biostatistician, studied effects of air quality and racial inequality on health
 * Elizabeth Stasny, American expert on missing data in surveys
 * Fiona Steele, British statistician who studies longitudinal data and applications in demography and education
 * Sandra Stinnett, American statistician specializing in the biostatistics of ophthalmology
 * Victoria Stodden, American statistician focusing on the reproducibility of research in computational science
 * Maura Stokes, American statistician, SAS developer, and young-adult novelist
 * S. Lynne Stokes, American expert on modeling non-sampling errors, mark and recapture methods, and opinion polls
 * Ineke Stoop (born 1953), Dutch survey statistician
 * Deborah Street (born 1957), Australian expert on the design of experiments
 * Cyntha Struthers (born c. 1954), Canadian mathematical statistician, president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
 * Elizabeth A. Stuart, American researcher on causal inference and missing data in the statistics of mental health
 * Thérèse Stukel, Canadian statistician interested in surgical mortality, regional variations in healthcare spending, and cardiology
 * Catherine Sugar, American biostatistician who studies cluster analysis, covariance, and applications in medicine and psychiatry
 * Lisa M. Sullivan (born 1961), American biostatistician associated with the Framingham Heart Study
 * Jiayang Sun, Chinese-American statistician, president of Caucus for Women in Statistics
 * Lei Sun, Chinese-Canadian statistical geneticist
 * Nike Sun, American probability theorist studying phase transitions and counting complexity
 * Rajeshwari Sundaram, Indian biostatistician, expert in survival analysis and reproductive health
 * Deborah F. Swayne, American expert on information visualization who wrote the GGobi software package

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
 * Elizabeth Tipton, American statistician, applies causal inference from meta-analysis to social statistics
 * Mary N. Torrey (born 1910), American mathematical statistician and expert in quality control
 * Sherry Towers, American and Canadian statistician, studied contagion effect of mass shootings
 * Andrea Troxel, American biostatistician, expert in behavioral economics in public health

U

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

X

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