Betty Allan

Frances Elizabeth Allan
Born(1905-07-11)11 July 1905
St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Died6 August 1952(1952-08-06) (aged 47)
Canberra Community Hospital, ACT
Resting placeCanberra cemetery
Other namesBetty
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
OccupationStatistician

Frances Elizabeth Allan (11 July 1905 – 6 August 1952) was an Australian statistician. She was known as the first statistician at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as "the effective founder of the CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics", and for her advocacy of biometrics.

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