Deborah A. Nolan is an American statistician and statistics educator.
[1] Nolan graduated from Vassar College in 1977;[2] she gained her first experience in statistics in a summer job at Vassar, doing statistical analyses for author Caroline Bird.
Needing to learn more statistics for her work, she studied at Columbia University for a year, and then entered full-time graduate study in statistics at Yale University.
[3] At Yale, the applied side of her research included work confirming the logarithmic spiral shape of snail shells.
[3] Her dissertation, supervised by David Pollard,[4] concerned central limit theorems,[3] and was titled U-Processes.