Miao, a statistician and a native of Hunan province in the People’s Republic of
China, successfully developed the statistics minor at Macalester and was involved in the
design and teaching of the new course “Quantitative Method for Public Policy. ” She has
published in refereed journals, book chapters and proceedings, one of the more recent of
which deals with the use of statistical evidence in legal decisions. 

EDUCATION: B.S., Peking University, China Ph.D., Tufts University

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Robuts directed tests of normality against heavy-tailed alternatives (with Yulia R. Gel and Joseph L. Gastwirth), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (2007)
 

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Shrinkage estimation for the difference between a control and treatment mean (with P Chiou), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (2007)
 

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The Moment Generating Function of the Logistic Distribution Through Residue Theory (with P. Chiou), Journal of probability and statistical science (2006)
 

The Shonubi Case as an Example of the Legal System's Failure to Appreciate Statistical Evidence (with B. Friedlin), Statistical Science in the Courtroom (2000)