Kai-Tai Fang
| Kai-Tai Fang | |
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| Born | 1940 (age 76–77) Taizhou, Jiangsu, China |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Hong Kong Baptist University, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Alma mater | Peking University |
| Doctoral advisor | Pao-Lu Hsu (许宝騄). |
| Other academic advisors | Minyi Yue |
| Known for |
Elliptical distributions Generalized multivariate analysis Uniform experimental designs |
| Influences | Theodore W. Anderson, Yuan Wang |
| Notable awards | Elected Member of the ISI; Fellow of the IMS, HKSS, and ASA; President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work, HKBU; most excellent book in China (Government Information and Publication Administration). |
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| Traditional Chinese | 方開泰 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 方开泰 | ||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Fāng Kāitài |
| Wade–Giles | Fang1 K'ai1-t'ai4 |
Kai-Tai Fang (born 1940) is a Chinese mathematician and statistician who has helped to develop generalized multivariate analysis, which extends classical multivariate analysis beyond the multivariate normal distribution to more general elliptical distributions. Alternative English spellings of "Kai-Tai Fang" include Kaitai Fang and K'ai T'ai Fang. He has also contributed to the design of experiments.
Fang is Director of Institute of Statistics and Computational Intelligence and Emeritus Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, after having been Full Professor of the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (formerly named Academia Sinica). He is an Elected Fellow (or Elected Member) of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and of the Hong Kong Statistical Society (HKSS). The Hong Kong Baptist University honored Professor Fang with the President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work in 2001. Fang and Zhang's book Generalized multivariate analysis was honored as a "most excellent book in China" by the Government Information and Publication Administration.
Fang's early life is described in by Agnes Loie in a volume published on his 65th birthday. Kai-Tai Fang was born in 1940 in Taizhou in the province of Jiangsu in China. He graduated from Jiangsu's Yangzhou High School.
In 1957 he studied mathematics at Peking University, after which he entered the graduate program at the Institute of Mathematics of the Academia Sinica, which was renamed as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing. His doctoral supervisor was Professor Pao-Lu Hsu (许宝騄), who suggested that Fang provide a multivariate generalization and correction of a univariate result, which had been given an incomplete proof in a Russian paper. With two weeks' work, Fang's submitted his extensions, which were declared by Hsu to suffice for his dissertation. Unfortunately, this paper remained unpublished for 19 years because the Cultural Revolution destroyed academic publishing in China. Fang reported that his studies were halted for the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966 to 1976.
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