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Larry Alan Wasserman
Birth Place:Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Workplaces:Carnegie Mellon University
Alma Mater:University of Toronto (Ph.D, 1988)
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Larry Alan Wasserman (born 1959) is a Canadian-American statistician and a professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science and the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University.

Biography

Wasserman received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1988 under the supervision of Robert Tibshirani.

He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1999[1] and the CRM-SSC Prize in 2002.[2]

He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1996,[3] of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2004,[4] and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011.[5] He was elected to National Academy of Sciences in May, 2016.[6]

Selected works

Wasserman has written many research papers about nonparametric inference, asymptotic theory, causality, and applications of statistics to astrophysics, bioinformatics, and genetics. He has also written two advanced statistics textbooks, All of Statistics[7] and All of Nonparametric Statistics.[8]

won DeGroot Prize 2005.[9]

Honors and awards

Wasserman was elected to National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievement in original research.[10]

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External links

Notes and References

  1. "Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies: Presidents' Award: Past Award Recipients," National Institute of Statistical Sciences, accessed August 14, 2011, http://nisla05.niss.org/copss/PastAwardsPresidents.pdf .
  2. "The 2002 CRM-SSC Prize is awarded to Larry Wasserman,"Centre de recherches mathématiques, accessed August 14, 2011, http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/prix/prixCRM-SSC/2002_CRM-SSC_an.html.
  3. "ASA Fellows," American Statistical Association, accessed August 14, 2011, http://www.amstat.org/careers/fellowslist.cfm .
  4. "IMS Fellows," Institute of Mathematical Statistics, accessed August 14, 2011, http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm
  5. Web site: AAAS Members Elected as Fellows (2010) . AAAS.org staff report . Larry . 2012 . aaas.org . AAAS . 16 December 2014.
  6. Web site: Larry Wasserman Elected to National Academy of Sciences - News - Carnegie Mellon University.
  7. Wasserman, Larry. All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference. New York: Springer, 2004.
  8. Wasserman, Larry. All of Nonparametric Statistics. New York: Springer, 2006.
  9. Web site: Winners of the DeGroot Prize (2005) . https://web.archive.org/web/20010219192945/http://www.bayesian.org/awards/DeGrootPrize.html . dead . 2001-02-19 . Wasserman . Larry . 2005 . bayesian.org . International Society for Bayesian Analysis . 16 December 2014 .
  10. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/larry-wasserman-elected-national-academy-sciences Larry Wasserman Elected To National Academy of Sciences
  11. Web site: A World Without Referees . Wasserman . Larry . 2012 . 16 December 2014.
  12. Web site: Rise of the Machines . Wasserman . Larry . stat.cmu . 17 December 2014.

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