Robert Tibshirani

Robert Tibshirani
FRS FRSC
Born (1956-07-10) July 10, 1956 (age 68)
NationalityCanadian, American
Alma materUniversity of Waterloo
University of Toronto
Stanford University
Known forLasso method
SpouseCheryl Denise Tibshirani
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsStanford University
Doctoral advisorBradley Efron[1]
Doctoral students
Websitetibshirani.su.domains

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.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference mathgene was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Witten, Daniela (2010). A penalized matrix decomposition, and its applications (PDF). stanford.edu (PhD thesis). Stanford University. OCLC 667187274. Retrieved 2018-08-28.