native_name_lang nationality workplaces article_title name alma_mater
english british mrc biostatistics unit , cambridge hilda mary woods
 hilda mary woods aberdeen university
hilda mary woods

hilda mary woods -lrb- 1892 -- 1971 -rrb- mbe , was a british statistician who began work in 1916 at the medical research council 's statistical research unit with major greenwood -lrb- `` major '' being his forename , not a military rank -rrb- .
subsequently , she would deputize for him in his directorship of the unit , where in 1931 woods and her co-author william russell published an early textbook on medical statistics -lrb- `` introduction to medical statistics '' , reprinted in 1936 -rrb- .
their practical text was based on lectures given at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine -lrb- lshtm -rrb- , as referenced in hill 's 1937 lancet articles and subsequent seminal text , `` the principles of medical statistics '' .
woods was appointed mbe for the statistical work she did in ceylon where her newlywed husband died from septicaemia barely two months after their marriage .
from ceylon , woods travelled to africa , where , upon the death of her sister-in-law and later of her brother , she assumed the sole guardianship of her niece and adopted daughter , rosemary gear .
