Biography:Tim Hesterberg

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Short description: American statistician

Tim Hesterberg is an American statistician. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and currently works as a staff data scientist at Instacart.

Education and career

Tim Hesterberg graduated with a B.A in mathematics from St. Olaf College and received his Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University.[1] He is a member of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences(NISS) and was previously on the NISS Board of Trustees. He is currently on the board of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute.[1] Hesterberg previously worked as a senior statistician at Google as well as at Franklin and Marshall College, Pacific Gas & Electric Co, and Insightful/MathSoft.[1] He is currently a senior statistician at Instacart.

Research

Hesterberg has contributed to statistical research by writing a textbook, articles, and a software package:

  • A 2011 undergraduate student textbook titled Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R.[2]
  • A 2015 article titled "What Teachers Should Know About the Bootstrap: Resampling in the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum".[3]
  • A 2015 R (programming language) software package titled 'resample: Resampling Functions'.[4] It performs bootstraps, permutation tests, and other sampling refunctions, and is intended to be easy to use.[4]
  • Scientific articles including "Bootstrap",[5] "Least-Angle Regression and LASSO for Large Datasets",[6] and "Least Angle and L1 Penalized Regression: A Review".[7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Tim Hesterberg". 2012-12-17. https://www.niss.org/people/tim-hesterberg. 
  2. ↑ "Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R, 2nd Edition". Wiley. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Mathematical+Statistics+with+Resampling+and+R%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9781119416531. 
  3. ↑ Hesterberg, Tim C. (2015-10-02). "What Teachers Should Know About the Bootstrap: Resampling in the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum". The American Statistician 69 (4): 371–386. doi:10.1080/00031305.2015.1089789. ISSN 0003-1305. PMID 27019512. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hesterberg, Tim (2015-04-12), resample: Resampling Functions, https://cran.r-project.org/package=resample, retrieved 2021-11-04 
  5. ↑ Hesterberg, Tim (2008-09-19), D'Agostino, Ralph B.; Sullivan, Lisa; Massaro, Joseph, eds., Bootstrap, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. eoct392, doi:10.1002/9780471462422.eoct392, ISBN 978-0-471-46242-2, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780471462422.eoct392, retrieved 2021-11-05 
  6. ↑ Hesterberg, Tim; Choi, Nam Hee; Meier, Lukas; Fraley, Chris (2008-01-01). "Least angle and ℓ1 penalized regression: A review". Statistics Surveys 2 (none). doi:10.1214/08-SS035. ISSN 1935-7516. 
  7. ↑ Fraley, Chris; Hesterberg, Tim (March 2009). "Least Angle Regression and LASSO for Large Datasets". Statistical Analysis and Data Mining 1 (4): 251–259. doi:10.1002/sam.10021. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sam.10021. 



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