Peter J. Huber

Peter J. Huber
Peter Huber in 1975
Born	(1934-03-25) 25 March 1934 (age 90) Wohlen, Aargau
Nationality	Swiss
Alma mater	ETH Zürich
Known for	Heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	ETH Zürich Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Bayreuth
Doctoral advisor	Beno Eckmann
Doctoral students	David Donoho Emery N. Brown

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. He later changed his research area from topology to statistics.[2] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[3]

See also

• Huber loss
• M-estimator
• Frank Hampel

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. DasGupta, Anirban (2005). "A Conversation with Larry Brown". Statistical Science. 20 (2): 193–203. Peter was a topologist by training and became a statistician.
3. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-05-06.

External links

• Peter J. Huber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project