Violet Cane

Violet Rosina Cane 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 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 " at Manchester in the 20th century.

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