Larry A. Wasserman

Who is Larry A. Wasserman?

Larry A. Wasserman is a Canadian statistician and a professor in the Department of Statistics and the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1999 and the CRM-SSC Prize in 2002.

Wasserman has written many research papers about nonparametric inference, asymptotic theory, causality, and applications of statistics to astrophysics, bioinformatics, and genetics. He has also written two advanced statistics textbooks, All of Statistics and All of Nonparametric Statistics. He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1996, and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2004.