Word: meng
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...Meng said he views the results as a reflection of the overall quality of his department...
...Remaining true to his statistical training, Meng qualified the results...
...Statistics Department has gone from strength to strength in recent years under the energetic leadership of first Don Rubin and, in recent Xiao-Li Meng,” Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby wrote in an e-mail. “Noting that the department is still smaller in size than its peer departments elsewhere, it is clearly pound-for-pound among the very best in the nation...
...fact that we made it into the top group is much more important than our exact numerical ranking,” Meng said, noting the difficulty of ranking departments linearly. “[The University of] Chicago did not make it into the top three—in many aspects I think Chicago is stronger than us, so it would be a bit silly to take this ranking as the evidence that we are better than Chicago...
...department that’s historically had a small number of full-time professors, Statistics’ peak came in 2000, when then-Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles authorized three senior faculty searches, one of which recruited Meng...