Robert Gentleman (statistician)

Robert Gentleman
Gentleman in 2020
Born
Robert Clifford Gentleman
Alma materUniversity of Washington
University of British Columbia
Known forR (programming language)
AwardsBenjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics)
Scientific career
InstitutionsGenentech
University of Washington
Harvard Medical School
University of Waterloo
The University of Auckland
ThesisExploratory methods for censored data (1988)
Doctoral advisorJohn James Crowley[1]

Robert Clifford Gentleman (born 1959) is a Canadian statistician and bioinformatician[2] who is currently the founding executive director of the Center for Computational Biomedicine at Harvard Medical School. He was previously the vice president of computational biology at 23andMe.[3][4] Gentleman is recognized, along with Ross Ihaka, as one of the originators of the R programming language[5][6] and the Bioconductor project.[7][8]

  1. ^ Robert Gentleman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Gentleman, R. (2005). "Reproducible Research: A Bioinformatics Case Study". Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 4: Article2. doi:10.2202/1544-6115.1034. PMID 16646837. S2CID 17729314.
  3. ^ "Bioinformatics Pioneer Robert Gentleman, Ph.D., Joins 23andMe Leadership Team". Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Robert Gentleman on His Goals for Drug Discovery at 23andMe". Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  5. ^ Ihaka, R.; Gentleman, R. (1996). "R: A Language for Data Analysis and Graphics". Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 5 (3): 299–314. doi:10.2307/1390807. JSTOR 1390807.
  6. ^ Ashlee Vance (6 January 2009). "R, the Software, Finds Fans in Data Analysts – NYTimes.com". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
  7. ^ Gentleman, R. C.; Carey, V. J.; Bates, D. M.; Bolstad, B.; Dettling, M.; Dudoit, S.; Ellis, B.; Gautier, L.; Ge, Y.; Gentry, J.; Hornik, K.; Hothorn, T.; Huber, W.; Iacus, S.; Irizarry, R.; Leisch, F.; Li, C.; Maechler, M.; Rossini, A. J.; Sawitzki, G.; Smith, C.; Smyth, G.; Tierney, L.; Yang, J. Y.; Zhang, J. (2004). "Bioconductor: Open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics". Genome Biology. 5 (10): R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80. PMC 545600. PMID 15461798.
  8. ^ Robert Gentleman at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata