Yan Yu (statistician)

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Yan Yu is a Chinese and American statistician and marketing scientist whose research interests include nonlinear regression analysis, statistical finance, [1] data privacy, [2] and the prediction of bankruptcy. [3] She is the Joseph S. Stern Professor of Business Analytics in the Carl H. Lindner College of Business of the University of Cincinnati. [1]

After a 1993 bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China and a 1995 master's degree in applied mathematics from Texas A&M University, Yu completed her Ph.D. in statistics at Cornell University in 2000. [1] Her doctoral dissertation, Penalized Spline Estimation for Partially Linear Single Index Models, was supervised by David Ruppert. [4]

Yu was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Yan Yu", Faculty, Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati, retrieved 2025-10-13
  2. Fleischman, Tom (October 10, 2022), "Protecting identities of panelists in market research", Cornell Chronicle, retrieved 2025-10-13
  3. Reilly, M. B. (August 1, 2010), "Bankruptcy International Style: What Financial Factors Predict Corporate Bankruptcy in Global Economies", UC News, University of Cincinnati, retrieved 2025-10-13
  4. Yan Yu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ASA Fellows, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2025-10-13