She assisted in the collection and processing of data as well as related computations.[4] Cave published in Biometrika and also conducted statistical analyses for the Treasury and Board of Trade.[3] Cave started working full-time as a computer at the Galton Laboratory in 1913, in which time she co-authored two papers published in Biometrika, including Numerical Illustrations of the Variate Difference Method.[5] Cave also created correlation tables in 1917 based on a series of mice breeding experiments by Raphael Weldon, a colleague of Pearson's at University College.