Peter Hall (mathematical statistician)
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Peter Gavin Hall FAA FRS (born November 20, 1951) is a leading international researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics. He is currently an ARC Federation Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Australia.[1] He previously held a Professorship in the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications at The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
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[edit] Summary of contributions
Professor Hall is a prolific and highly-cited author in both probability and statistics. Mathscinet lists him with 496 publications as of October 3, 2007. He has made very substantial and important contributions to nonparametric statistics, in particular for curve estimation and resampling: the bootstrap method, smoothing, density estimation, and bandwidth selection. He has worked on numerous applications across fields of economics, engineering, physical science and biological science. He has also made groundbreaking contributions to surface roughness measurement using fractals. In probability theory he has made many contributions to limit theory, spatial processes and stochastic geometry.
Peter Hall is the author of at least two books
- P. Hall, Introduction to the theory of coverage processes, Wiley 1988, ISBN 0-471-85702-5
- P. Hall, The Bootstrap and Edgeworth Expansion, Springer 1992, ISBN 0-387-94508-3
Peter Hall teaches at the Statistics Department of University of California Davis. He is currently teaching probability theory in UC Davis spring 2008.
[edit] Awards and honors
Professor Hall has obtained numerous awards and honors, including the Rollo Davidson Price and the Australian Mathematical Society Medal in 1986, and the Pitman Medal in 1990. He was a S. S. Wilks Lecturer in 1988, Mahalanobis Memorial Lecturer in 1992, and Kolmogorov Lecturer in 1996. He became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1987, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1990, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1996. For an extensive list of awards and honors see CIRS.
[edit] References
- ^ Seven new Federation Fellows for Melbourne. The University of Melbourne: UniNews, Vol. 15, No. 9, 29 May - 12 June 2006 [1].
