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- ↑ Margaret C. Wu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "NHLBI Honors Awardees", The NIH Record, p. 4, 2 May 1989
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-07-13
