Wen-Yi Wendy Lou is a biostatistician who works as a professor in the

Dalla Lana School of Public Health Dalla Lana School of Public Health is the school of public health at the University of Toronto. It was founded in 1927, and was home for 50 years to Connaught Laboratories, a manufacturer of vaccines, insulin, and many other pharmaceutical produc ...

of the

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. Her research interests include the theory of runs and patterns in sequence data and applications of statistics to health care.

Education and career

Lou completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics in 1995 at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation was ''On runs tests for independence of binary longitudinal data using the method of finite Markov chain imbedding''. She worked as a faculty member in the

Mount Sinai School of Medicine The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City. It is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sinai Health System, which manages eig ...

, at that time affiliated with

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, before moving back to Toronto.

Book

With James C. Fu, Lou is the author of the book ''Distribution Theory of Runs and Patterns and Its Applications: A Finite Markov Chain Imbedding Approach'' (World Scientific, 2003).

Recognition

Lou is the former holder of the

Canada Research Chair Canada Research Chair (CRC) is a title given to certain Canadian university research professors by the Canada Research Chairs Program. Program goals The Canada Research Chair program was established in 2000 as a part of the Government of Canada ...

in Statistical Methods for Health Care in the Dalla Lana School. In 2013 Lou became a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

"for her notable contributions to the distribution theory of runs and patterns, for remarkable collaborations in the biomedical and healthcare sciences, for exemplary leadership in statistical education and outstanding service to the profession".

References

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