Nancy Robbins Mann is an American statistician known for her research on quality management, reliability estimation, and the Weibull distribution.
[4][6] Her doctoral dissertation was Point and Interval Estimates for Reliability Parameters when Failure Times Have the Two-parameter Weibull Distribution.
[6] With Ray E. Schafer and Nozer D. Singpurwalla, Mann wrote the book Methods for Statistical Analysis of Reliability and Life Data (Wiley, 1974).
[8] Mann was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1970 "for her contributions to the theory of reliability, particularly for her research in the theory of point and interval estimation for the Weibull and extreme value distributions, and for her service to the profession as an Associate Editor of Technometrics".
[1] She was selected to join the Chillicothe High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame in 2003.