Linda Margaret Haines (née Bower; born 1 August 1944 in Harrogate)[1] is an English and South African statistician.
[1] She earned a master's degree in 1967 at University College London, under the supervision of M. H. B. Stiddard,[1] winning UCL's Ramsay Medal for the top postgraduate student in chemistry in her year.
[4] Moving to South Africa, she completed her Ph.D. in 1970, in inorganic chemistry, at the University of South Africa, and married chemist Raymond J. Haines, while also working at the National Chemical Research Laboratories in Pretoria.
Her dissertation, A Synthetic Study of Some Tertiary Phosphine and Phosphite Complexes of Rhodium and Iridium, was jointly supervised by Eric Singleton and W. J.
[2] She served as president of the South African Statistical Association for the 1999 term.