Lynn Kuo
{{Short description|Professor of statistics}}
Lynn Kuo (born 1949)Birthdate from [https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2014017970/ Worldcat] is a professor emerita of statistics at the University of Connecticut{{r|profile}} known for her work on statistical decision theory, The admissibility of the empirical distribution function MP Cohen, L Kuo The Annals of Statistics 1985 [PDF] projecteuclid.org Minimax estimation of a variance TS Ferguson L Kuo Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 1994 Springer [PDF] ism.ac.jp software reliability,Handbook of Statistics Software Reliability Volume 25 2005 pages 929-963 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-7161(05)25033-2 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).{{r|larget|oaks}}
Education and career
Kuo did both her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles,{{r|nestat}} completing her PhD in 1980. Her dissertation, supervised by Thomas S. Ferguson, was Computations and Applications of Mixtures of Dirichlet Processes.{{r|mgp}} 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.{{r|nestat}}
She was the treasurer of the New England Statistical Society,{{r|nestat}} and has also worked as treasurer for the International Chinese Statistical Association.{{r|isca}}
Awards and honors
Kuo is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.{{r|nestat}} In 2013, she won the Outstanding Service Award of the International Chinese Statistical Association.{{r|isca}}
References
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| last = Larget | first = Bret
| date = April 2015
| doi = 10.1111/insr.12095_1
| issue = 1
| journal = International Statistical Review
| pages = 160–161
| title = Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms and Applications
| volume = 83}}
| last = Oaks | first = Jamie R.
| date = August 2015
| doi = 10.1093/sysbio/syv063
| issue = 6
| journal = Systematic Biology
| pages = 1122–1125
| title = Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms, and Applications
| volume = 64| doi-access = free
}}
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External links
- [http://merlot.stat.uconn.edu/~lynn/ Home page]
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Category:American statisticians
Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Category:University of Connecticut faculty
Category:Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association
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