Lynn Kuo

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Lynn Kuo (born 1949) [1] is a professor emerita of statistics at the University of Connecticut [2] known for her work on statistical decision theory, [3] [4] software reliability, [5] and Bayesian inference in phylogeny. With Ming-Hui Chen and Paul O. Lewis, she is the author of Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms, and Applications (CRC Press, 2014). [6] [7]

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Education and career

Kuo did both her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, [8] completing her PhD in 1980. Her dissertation, supervised by Thomas S. Ferguson, was Computations and Applications of Mixtures of Dirichlet Processes. [9] She has worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute before joining the Connecticut faculty. [8]

She was the treasurer of the New England Statistical Society, [8] and has also worked as treasurer for the International Chinese Statistical Association. [10]

Awards and honors

Kuo is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. [8] In 2013, she won the Outstanding Service Award of the International Chinese Statistical Association. [10]

References

  1. ↑ Birthdate from Worldcat
  2. ↑ Lynn Kuo, University of Connecticut Department of Statistics, 2014-11-12, retrieved 2017-10-19
  3. ↑ The admissibility of the empirical distribution function MP Cohen, L Kuo The Annals of Statistics 1985 [PDF] projecteuclid.org
  4. ↑ Minimax estimation of a variance TS Ferguson L Kuo Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 1994 Springer [PDF] ism.ac.jp
  5. ↑ Handbook of Statistics Software Reliability Volume 25 2005 pages 929-963 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-7161(05)25033-2
  6. ↑ Larget, Bret (April 2015), "Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms and Applications", International Statistical Review, 83 (1): 160–161, doi:10.1111/insr.12095_1
  7. ↑ Oaks, Jamie R. (August 2015), "Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms, and Applications", Systematic Biology, 64 (6): 1122–1125, doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syv063
  8. 1 2 3 4 Lynn Kuo, New England Statistical Society, retrieved 2017-10-19
  9. ↑ Lynn Kuo at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  10. 1 2 Outstanding Service Award 2013, International Chinese Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-10-19
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