Yvonne Millicent Mahala Bishop (died May 26, 2015)[1] was an English-born[2] statistician who spent her working life in America.
She wrote a "classic" book on multivariate statistics, and made important studies of the health effects of anesthetics and air pollution.
Bishop completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1967; her dissertation was Multi-Dimensional Contingency Tables: Cell Estimates.
Mosteller writes that she had "a remarkable ability to get things done", and that she wrote several chapters of the halothane report.
[5] After completing her doctorate, Bishop worked for the Children's Cancer Research Foundation, and as a faculty member in the biostatistics department of the Harvard School of Public Health.