Weiwen Miao

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Weiwen Miao is a Chinese-American statistician, statistics educator, and scholar of legal statistics and nonparametric statistics. She is a professor of mathematics and statistics at Haverford College. [1]

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Education and career

Miao has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Peking University. She went to Tufts University for graduate study in probability theory and statistics, earning a master's degree and a Ph.D. there. [2] Her 1995 doctoral dissertation, Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Exponential Families, was supervised by Marjorie Hahn. [3]

After teaching statistics at Mount Holyoke College and Colby College, and becoming an associate professor at Macalester College, she moved to Haverford College in 2007. [2]

Recognition

Miao was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021. [4]

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References

  1. "Weiwen Miao, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics", Faculty, Haverford College, retrieved 2021-07-18
  2. 1 2 Five Tenure-Track Professors New to Haverford's Faculty This Year, Haverford College, September 24, 2007, retrieved 2021-07-18
  3. Weiwen Miao at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-07-18