Peter J. Huber
Peter Jost Huber (born 25 March 1934) is a Swiss statistician. He is known for his contributions to the development of heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors.[1]
Peter J. Huber | |
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 Peter Huber in 1975 | |
| Born | 25 March 1934 |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Alma mater | ETH Zürich |
| Known for | Heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | ETH Zürich Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Bayreuth |
| Doctoral advisor | Beno Eckmann |
| Doctoral students | David Donoho |
A native of Wohlen, Aargau, Huber earned his Ph.D. at the ETH Zürich in 1962, under supervision of Beno Eckmann. He later changed his research area from topology to statistics.[2] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
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References
- Cameron, A. Colin; Trivedi, Pravin K. (2005). Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press. pp. 137–139. ISBN 0-521-84805-9.
- DasGupta, Anirban (2005). "A Conversation with Larry Brown". Statistical Science. 20 (2): 193–203.
Peter was a topologist by training and became a statistician.
- List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-05-06.
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