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The number of women among the first three statisticians employed
by CSIRO.
In the 1930s, when few women went to university,
let alone studied maths, Melbourne University graduate Frances Elizabeth
'Betty' Allan became CSIRO's first ever statistician.
With her compatriots Mildred Barnard and Helen
Newton-Turner, she proved the value of statistics in research, adding
rigour to a wide range of projects.
All three women had trained at
Rothamsted Experimental Station in England with Fisher or Yates, two of
the founders of modern statistics.
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