| Peter Gavin Hall | |
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| Born | 20 November 1951 Sydney, New South Wales |
| Nationality | Australia |
| Fields | Mathematics, statistics |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney Australian National University University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | John Kingman |
| Notable awards | Rollo Davidson Prize (1986) |
Peter Gavin Hall FAA FRS (born 20 November 1951) is an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics.
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Hall was born to radiophysics and radio astronomy pioneer Ruby Payne-Scott and telephone technician William Holman Hall. His younger sister is artistic photographer and sculptor, Fiona Margaret Hall.
Hall is among the world's most prolific and highly-cited authors in both probability and statistics. Mathscinet lists him with more than 500 publications as of January 2008. 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. Hall 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. His paper "Theoretical comparison of bootstrap confidence intervals" (Annals of Statistics, 1988) has been reprinted in the Breakthroughs in Statistics collection.
Hall is currently a professor and ARC Federation Fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne,[1] and also has a joint appointment at University of California Davis.[2] He previously held a professorship at the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications at the Australian National University.