Xihong Lin

Xihong Lin is a Chinese-American statistician known for her contributions to mixed models, nonparametric and semiparametric regression, and statistical genetics and genomics. As of 2014, she is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University and Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics.

Lin received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2006,[1] the Spiegelman award of the outstanding health statistician from the American Public Health Association in 2002, and the MERIT award from the National Cancer Institute (2007-2016).

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]

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  1. ↑ "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,
  2. ↑ "ASA Fellows," American Statistical Association, accessed August 14, 2011, http://www.amstat.org/careers/fellowslist.cfm.
  3. ↑ "IMS Fellows," Institute of Mathematical Statistics, accessed August 14, 2011, http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm.
  4. ↑ "Curriculum Vitae: Xihong Lin," http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/~xlin/lincv.pdf.

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