Kaye Enid Basford AM (born 10 August 1952) is an Australian statistician and biometrician who applies statistical methods to plant genetics.
(Hon) she worked for the Dental School, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, contributing many papers on dentistry.
[2][3][4] Basford earned her Ph.D. in 1985 from the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Queensland.
Her dissertation, jointly supervised by Geoffrey McLachlan and Don Byth, was Cluster Analysis via Normal Mixture Models.
[6] With John Tukey she wrote Graphical Analysis of Multiresponse Data: Illustrated with a Plant Breeding Trial (Chapman & Hall / CRC, 1999.