Howell Tong is a statistician, working in the fields of nonlinear time series analysis and chaos. Since 1999, he has been a Chair Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics. Tong went to England initially to study in 1961. He got his Bachelor of Science (1966), Master of Science (1969) and Doctor of Philosophy(1972) all from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) where he studied with Maurice Priestley.

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  • Howell Tong is a statistician, working in the fields of nonlinear time series analysis and chaos. Since 1999, he has been a Chair Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics. Tong went to England initially to study in 1961. He got his Bachelor of Science (1966), Master of Science (1969) and Doctor of Philosophy(1972) all from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) where he studied with Maurice Priestley. Tong remained in UMIST first as a lecturer and then as a senior lecturer. While in Manchester, he started his married life with Mary. In 1982, he moved to the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he was the founding Chair of Statistics. Four years later, he returned to England to be Chair of Statistics at the University of Kent at Canterbury until 1999. Tong is currently Chair of Statistics at the London School of Economics, since 1999. Between 1997 and 2004, Tong was also Chair of Statistics and sometime Pro-Vice Chancellor and Founding Dean of the Graduate School, University of Hong Kong. Tong was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1993, an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, England in 1999, and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2000. He won the State Natural Science Prize, China in 2000. The Royal Statistical Society awarded him their Guy Medal in Silver in 2007 in recognition of his "... many important contributions to time series analysis over a distinguished career and in particular for his fundamental and highly influential paper "Threshold autoregression, limit cycles and cyclical data", read to the Society in 1980, which paved the way for a major body of work in non-linear time series modelling. " Tong has two children: Simon and Anna.
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  • 1944-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
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  • Kung-Sik Chan
    Marion Green
    K. S. Lim
    R Moenaddin
    John Pemberton
    Ken T K Siu
    A E Sorour
    B Thanoon
    Iris Yeung
    K. S. Khoo
    J-P Stockis
    Zhiqiang Zhang
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  • Pioneering and foundational work in Non-linear Time Series Analysis, especially Threshold Autoregressive Models
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  • Howell Tong
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  • Barbel Finkensteadt
    Jiazhu Pan
    Qiwei Yao
    Wenyang Zhang
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  • Howell Tong is a statistician, working in the fields of nonlinear time series analysis and chaos. Since 1999, he has been a Chair Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics. Tong went to England initially to study in 1961. He got his Bachelor of Science (1966), Master of Science (1969) and Doctor of Philosophy(1972) all from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) where he studied with Maurice Priestley.
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