Xihong Lin
Xihong Lin is an award-winning Chinese-American statistician. She is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics at Harvard University. Lin has written many research papers about statistical genetics, linear mixed models, bias correction, and other topics. She received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2006.[1]
Lin was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2000[2] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2007,[3] and is a founding co-editor of the journal Statistics in BioSciences.
Lin received her B.Sc. from Tsinghua University in 1989 and her Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Washington in 1994, where her supervisor was Norman Breslow.[4]
References
- ^ "Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies: Presidents' Award: Past Award Recipients," National Institute of Statistical Sciences, accessed August 14, 2011, http://nisla05.niss.org/copss/PastAwardsPresidents.pdf.
- ^ "ASA Fellows," American Statistical Association, accessed August 14, 2011, http://www.amstat.org/careers/fellowslist.cfm.
- ^ "IMS Fellows," Institute of Mathematical Statistics, accessed August 14, 2011, http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae: Xihong Lin," accessed August 14, 2011 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/~xlin/lincv.pdf.
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Lin, Xihong |
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Professor Lin, PhD |
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statistician |
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November 3rd, 1967 |
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