Violet Cane

Violet Rosina Cane (31 January 1916 – 27 June 2008) was a Cambridge-educated statistician who was the first woman appointed as a professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Manchester. She is known for her work in classical statistics and stochastic processes.

Biography

Cane was born in Camberwell, London, the daughter of Tubal George Cane and Anne Louisa (Lansdell) Cane.

• 1938: Graduated from Newnham College
• 1942-45: Joined the Foreign Office and worked at Bletchley Park
• 1947: Elected Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
• 1948: Awarded a diploma in mathematical statistics from Cambridge, and appointed statistician to the MRC Applied Psychology Unit at Cambridge.
• 1957: Elected Fellow of Newnham College
• 1959: Founding member of the Experimental Psychology Society
• 1960: Appointed University Lecturer in the Statistical Laboratory at Cambridge.
• 1971: Appointed Professor of Mathematical Statistics at University of Manchester

She retired from Manchester in 1981. She has been described as "one of the biggest names in the subject [of mathematics]" at Manchester in the 20th century.

Selected publications

• 1959. "Behaviour Sequences as Semi-Markov Chains," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B

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