Peter J. Huber

Peter J. Huber

Peter Huber in 1975
Born (1934-03-25) 25 March 1934
Wohlen, Aargau
Nationality Swiss
Fields Statistics
Institutions ETH Zürich
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Bayreuth
Alma mater ETH Zürich
Doctoral advisor Beno Eckmann
Doctoral students David Donoho
Known for Heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors

Peter Jost Huber (born 25 March 1934) is a Swiss statistician. He is known for his contributions to the development of heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors.[1]

A native of Wohlen, Aargau, Huber earned his Ph.D. at the ETH Zürich in 1962, under supervision of Beno Eckmann. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[2]

References

  1. Cameron, A. Colin; Trivedi, Pravin K. (2005). Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press. pp. 137–139. ISBN 0-521-84805-9.
  2. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-05-06.
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