Xihong Lin
Xihong Lin is a Chinese statistician known for her contributions to mixed models, nonparametric and semiparametric regression, and statistical genetics and genomics. As of 2015[update], she is the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health 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 [2] from the National Cancer Institute (2007-2016).
Lin was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2000[3] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2007,.[4]
Lin received her B.Sc. from Tsinghua University in 1989 and her Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Washington in 1994, where her supervisor was Norman Breslow.
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,
- ↑ "MERIT Award"
- ↑ "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.
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