Fai Hrong-tai ( Chinese: 費鴻泰; born 7 July 1954), also known by his English name Alex Fai, is a Taiwanese

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and politician who has been a member of the

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since

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. He represents Taipei City Constituency VII and is the leader of the

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caucus in the legislature.

Early life and education

Fai was born in

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on July 7, 1954, to Fai Jin-ho and Fai Gi-ing. They were a ''waishengren'' family. His father was born in

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, and his elder brother graduated from the Republic of China Naval Academy and became president of

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. After graduating from

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, Fai received a bachelor's degree in

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from

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. He then completed graduate studies in the United States, where he earned a

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(M.S.) in statistics from

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and his Ph.D. in statistics from the

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in 1991 under professor Paul L. Cornelius. Fai's doctoral dissertation was titled, "Comparison of exact and approximate tests of hypotheses concerning the first stage factor in unbalanced nested designs and the main plot factor in split-plot experiments with missing data".

References

1954 births Living people New Taipei Members of the Legislative Yuan Kuomintang Members of the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan Members of the 6th Legislative Yuan Members of the 7th Legislative Yuan Members of the 8th Legislative Yuan Members of the 9th Legislative Yuan Members of the 10th Legislative Yuan {{Taiwan-KMT-politician-stub