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In 1981, Chen Wen-chen, a statistics professor at Carnegie Mellon University, left the USA to visit family in Taiwan. He never returned. Forty years on from his tragic and suspicious death, friends and former colleagues remember a promising young academic, whose contributions to statistics were cut short, but whose hopes for a democratic Taiwan were eventually realised.Margaret L. Smykla of Carnegie Mellon University takes up the story
Source: Significance - Category: Statistics Authors: Tags: Profiles Source Type: research