Robert Tibshirani
Academic Appointments
- Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
- Member, Bio-X
- Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
- Professor, Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics
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Personal Information Email Tel (650) 725-5989
Professional Overview
Honors and Awards
- Gold medal, Statistical Soceity of Canada (2012)
- Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences (2012)
- Alumni Achievement Award, University of Waterloo (2006)
- E.W Steacie Prize, NSERC- Canada (1998)
- President's award, Committee of Presidents of Statistical societies (1997)
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (1997)
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Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
My research is in applied statistics and biostatistics. I specialize in computer-intensive methods for regression and classification, bootstrap, cross-validation and statistical inference, and signal and image analysis for medical diagnosis.
Publications
- Classification of patients from time-course gene expression. Biostatistics. 2013; (1): 87-98
- Autoantibody epitope spreading in the pre-clinical phase predicts progression to rheumatoid arthritis. PLoS One. 2012; (5): e35296
- Genome-wide measurement of RNA folding energies. Mol Cell. 2012; (2): 169-81
- In situ vaccination against mycosis fungoides by intratumoral injection of a TLR9 agonist combined with radiation: a phase 1/2 study. Blood. 2012; (2): 355-63
- Normalization, testing, and false discovery rate estimation for RNA-sequencing data. Biostatistics. 2012; (3): 523-38
- Strong rules for discarding predictors in lasso-type problems J. Royal stat. Assoc B. 2012: 245-266
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