About Violet Cane
Lived 1916 – 2008 (aged 92). Violet Cane was a British statistician.
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.
Selected publications 1959. "Behaviour Sequences as Semi-Markov Chains," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B
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English statistician
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Violet Cane was born on 31 January 1916 in Camberwell.
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Violet Cane died on 27 June 2008.
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