Yung L. Tong
Emertius Professor of Mathematics
Georgia Institute of Technology

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

B.S., National Taiwan University, Taiwan, China (July 1958)

M.S., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (August 1963)

Ph.D., University of Minnesota (August 1967)

CURRENT FIELDS OF INTEREST:

Mathematical statistics, multivariate statistical analysis, reliability theory, stochastic inequalities, operations research and engineering statistics, multiple decision problems, statistical computing.

SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS:

1. Tong, Y. L. (1989). Inequalities for a class of positively dependent random variables with a common marginal. The Annals of Statistics Vol. 17, pp. 429-435.
2. Shaked, M., Shanthikumar, J. G. and Tong, Y. L. (1995). Parametric Schur convexity and arrangement monotonicity properties of partial sums. Journal of Multivariate Analysis Vol. 53, pp. 293-310.
3. Tong, Y. L. (1997). Some majorization orderings of heterogeneity in a class of epidemics. Journal of Applied Probability Vol. 34 , pp. 84-93.
4. Tong, Y. L. (1997). The role of covariance matrix in the least-squares estimation for a common mean. Linear Algebra and Its Applications Vol. 264, pp. 313-323.

SAMPLE BOOKS AND RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS:

1. Tong, Y. L. (1980). Probability Inequalities in Multivariate Distributions. Academic Press, New York (in the AP Probability and Mathematical Statistics Series, xiii+239 pages).
2. Tong, Y. L., ed. (1984). Inequalities in Statistics and Probability (with the cooperation of I. Olkin, M. D. Perlman, F. Proschan and C. R. Rao). IMS Lecture Notes - Monograph Series Vol. 5, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Hayward, CA (x+250 pages).
3. Tong, Y. L. (1990). The Multivariate Normal Distribution. Springer-Verlag, New York and Berlin (in the Springer Series in Statistics, xiii+271 pages).
4. Pecaric, J. E., Proschan, F. and Tong, Y. L. (1992). Convex Functions, Partial Orderings, and Statistical Applications. Academic Press, Boston. AP Mathematics in Science and Engineering Series Vol. 187 (xiii+467 pages).

PROFESSIONAL HONORS

Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association

Elected an ordinary member of the International Statistical Institute.

Recipient of the Georgia Tech Chapter Sigma Xi Faculty Best Paper Award, June 1990.