Margaret Gurney (October 28, 1908 – March 19, 2002) was an American mathematician, statistician, and computer programmer.
[1] She won the Department of Commerce Silver Medal and was recognized as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
At the Census Bureau, Gurney helped plan sampling-based surveys, and implemented her statistical methods on the UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer in the United States.
[1] Gurney was awarded the Department of Commerce Silver Medal in 1966, "for her continuous contributions to the theory and application of sample survey methods over a long period".
[4] In 1968, Gurney was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in honor of her "distinguished contributions to the theory of recurrent sample surveys, to the measurement of nonsampling errors, and to training programs of foreign statisticians in sample surveys of their own countries".