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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 Emery N. Brown |
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]
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]
See also
References
- ^ Cameron, A. Colin; Trivedi, Pravin K. (2005). Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press. pp. 137–139. ISBN 0-521-84805-9.
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^ 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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