Robert Tibshirani | |
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Born | July 10, 1956 |
Nationality | Canadian, American |
Alma mater | University of Waterloo University of Toronto Stanford University |
Known for | Lasso method |
Spouse | Cheryl Denise Tibshirani |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Doctoral advisor | Bradley Efron[1] |
Doctoral students | |
Website | tibshirani |
Robert Tibshirani FRS FRSC (born July 10, 1956) is a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. He was a professor at the University of Toronto from 1985 to 1998. In his work, he develops statistical tools for the analysis of complex datasets, most recently in genomics and proteomics.
His most well-known contributions are the Lasso method, which proposed the use of L1 penalization in regression and related problems, and Significance Analysis of Microarrays.