William S. Cleveland

Not to be confused with Bill Cleveland.

William Swain Cleveland II (born 1943) is an American computer scientist and Professor of Statistics and Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, known for his work on data visualization, particularly on nonparametric regression[1] and local regression.[2] He is remembered as one of the developers of the S programming language.[3]

  1. ^ Armitage, Peter, Geoffrey Berry, and John NS Matthews. Statistical methods in medical research. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
  2. ^ Venables, William N., and Brian D. Ripley. Modern applied statistics with S. Springer Science & Business Media, 2002.
  3. ^ Berry, Kenneth J.; Johnston, Janis E.; Jr, Paul W. Mielke (2014-04-11). A Chronicle of Permutation Statistical Methods: 1920–2000, and Beyond. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 207. ISBN 978-3-319-02744-9.