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Robert Tibshirani

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Robert Tibshirani

Professor of Statistics
Professor of Biomedical Data Science
Mailing Address: 

Department of Statistics
Sequoia Hall
390 Serra Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

Department of Biomedical Data Science
HRP Redwood Building Room T101C
150 Governor's Lane MC 5405
Stanford, CA 94305

Phone: 
650.723.7264
Fax: 
650.725.8977
Joint Appointment or Affiliation: 
Bio-X
Biomedical Data Science
Research Interests: 
biostatistics
data mining
Personal Website: 
statistics.stanford.edu/~tibs/
Research Statement: 

Robert Tibshirani's main interests are in applied statistics, biostatistics, and data mining. He is co-author of the books Generalized Additive Models (with T. Hastie), An Introduction to the Bootstrap (with B. Efron), and Elements of Statistical Learning (with T. Hastie and J. Friedman). His current research focuses on problems in biology and genomics, medicine, and industry. With collaborator Balasubramanian Narasimhan, he also develops software packages for genomics and proteomics.

Dissertation Title: 
Local Likelihood Estimation
Advisor Name: 
Efron
Committee Names: 
Friedman, Switzer
Cohort: 
1984-1985