Lynne Billard (born 1943)[1] is an Australian statistician and professor at the University of Georgia, known for her statistics research, leadership, and advocacy for women in science.
She has served as president of the American Statistical Association, and the International Biometric Society, one of a handful of people to have led both organizations.
Most mathematical/theoretical work was motivated by real life applied questions primarily from the biological sciences (broadly defined), including scientific collaboration with substantive field researchers.
Also, currently, an analysis of survival rates using a cardiology dataset (with large n and large p) is being finalized; this analysis develops and then applies symbolic classification methods for interval and modal data formats for acute myocardial infarction and compares the results with those from classical CART and ecological CART analyses.
She also served as principal investigator for "Pathways to the Future," an annual National Science Foundation workshop which ran from 1988 to 2004 and focused on mentoring women who had recently received PhDs in Statistics, and were primarily entering academic positions.