Constance van Eeden (April 6, 1927 – September 21, 2021)[1] was a Dutch mathematical statistician who made "exceptional contributions to the development of statistical sciences in Canada".
[2] Van Eeden was born in Delft,[3][2] the daughter of a schoolteacher, and spent her school years in Bergen op Zoom.
[4] Her doctoral dissertation, with David van Dantzig as promoter[2][5] and Jan Hemelrijk as an unofficial mentor,[4] was Testing and Estimating Ordered Parameters of Probability Distribution.
[2] It was in that visit that Van Eeden met and married her husband, Charles H. Kraft, another statistician; the anti-nepotism rules then in force at many universities, including Michigan State, made it difficult for them both to find positions at the same place.
She retired in 1989, and has held visiting and honorary positions at the Université du Québec à Montréal and University of British Columbia since then.