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- ↑ Naisyin Wang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Agresti, Alan; Meng, Xiao-Li, eds. (2012), Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S., Springer, p. 305, ISBN 9781461436492 .
