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Hilda Mary Woods (1892 – 1971) MBE, was a British statistician who began work in 1916 at the Medical Research Council's Statistical Research Unit with Major Greenwood ("Major" being his forename, not a military rank). 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 (''Introduction to Medical Statistics'', reprinted in 1936). Their practical text was based on lectures given at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), 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.〔 ==Early life and education== Hilda Mary Woods was born in 1892 in Doddershall, Quainton, Buckinghamshire, England, the daughter of William Ashburnham Woods, a farmer, and Mary Ann Woods (née Markham).〔 She was the eldest daughter in a family of five surviving children: three boys and two girls.〔(The James Lind Library, accessed 27 October 2013 )〕 Her early education was provided by a governess at home and included learning to play the piano. At age 12 she was sent to the private Northampton High School as a boarder. There she obtained her Junior Oxford and Cambridge Certificate and several music certificates. In June 1916, she had wandered along Whitehall in search of work and willing to accept anything. Finally she came to a door in Whitehall Gardens marked Ministry of Munitions and filled in a form and was interviewed.〔 She was asked: ''"Are you any good at mathematics? There is a doctor in the Welfare Section who wants an educated person to travel round and get statistics from factories. You look too young tho’. What age are you?"'' Woods promptly added three years to her age and the appointment was made. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hilda Mary Woods」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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