Christy Chuang-Stein

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Christy Chuang-Stein is a Taiwanese-American [a] biostatistician who has worked in academia and in the pharmaceutical industry. She was elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 1998.

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Early life and education

Chuang-Stein was born and raised in Taiwan. Both her parents were teachers and her mother taught her extra lessons in mathematics. She earned her BA in mathematics from the National Taiwan University in 1975. She went on to earn her PhD in statistics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 1980. Her thesis was titled Analysis of Categorical Data with Ordered Categories, written under the tutelage of Kinley Larntz and Stephen Fienberg. [2] [3] [4]

Career

After obtaining her PhD, Chuang-Stein took a faculty position in the Cancer Center at the University of Rochester. [2] She stayed at Rochester for five years and then, in 1985, joined the Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan. [1] Upjohn was eventually absorbed into Pfizer, where she spent the rest of her career. She retired from Pfizer in 2015 and formed her own consulting company. [5] She is the author or co-author of more than 160 refereed papers, three textbooks on the application of biostatistics methods to pharmaceutical research [6] and a number of chapters in books. [5] She co-founded the journal Pharmaceutical Statistics. [7]

Recognition

Chuang-Stein was elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 1998. She was awarded the ASA’s Founders' Award (2012) and the Distinguished Achievement Award of the International Chinese Statistical Association (2014). [4] [8] She has earned the Drug Information Association's (DIA) Donald E. Francke Award for Overall Excellence in Journal Publishing three times (2001, 2004, 2009) and DIA's Thomas Teal Award for Excellence in Statistics Publishing twice (2008, 2010). [4] [7] In 2004 she won the Recognition Award by the Clinical Leadership Committee of PhRMA. [4]

Notes

  1. ↑ In an interview in the Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics, Chuang-Stein refers to herself as Chinese. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Rotondo, Julia; Jones, Molly (2013). "Interview: Christy Chuang-Stein". Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics. 29 (2): 111–117. doi:10.3233/SJI-130772. ISSN   1874-7655.
  2. 1 2 "Christy Chuang-Stein". Amstat News. American Statistical Association.
  3. ↑ Christy Chuang-Stein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Distinguished Achievement Award 2014". International Chinese Statistical Association. October 16, 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Christy Chuang-Stein". National Institute of Statistical Sciences.
  6. ↑
    • Chuang-Stein's books include:
    • Dmitrienko, Alex; Chuang-Stein, Christy; D'Agostino, Ralph B. (February 7, 2007). Pharmaceutical Statistics Using SAS. Cary, NC: SAS Institute. ISBN   978-1-62959-030-1.
    • Chuang-Stein, Christy; Kirby, Simon (September 3, 2021). Quantitative Decisions in Drug Development. Cham: Springer Nature. ISBN   978-3-030-79731-7.
    • Dmitrienko, Alex; Molenberghs, Geert; Chuang-Stein, Christy; Offen, Walter (January 1, 2005). Analysis of Clinical Trials Using SAS. Cary, NC: SAS Press. ISBN   978-1-59047-504-1.
  7. 1 2 "Christy Chuang-Stein". SAS Support. June 24, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Founders Award". American Statistical Association. September 27, 2021.

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