Peter Rousseeuw, Date of Birth

Peter Rousseeuw

Belgian statistician

Date of Birth: 13-Oct-1956

Profession: university teacher, statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Peter J.
Rousseeuw (born 13 October 1956) is a statistician known for his work on robust statistics and cluster analysis.
He obtained his PhD in 1981 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, following research carried out at the ETH in Zurich in the group of Frank Hampel, which led to a book on influence functions.
Later he was professor at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Currently he is professor at KU Leuven, Belgium.
He is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1993) and the American Statistical Association (1994).
His former PhD students include A.
Leroy, H.
Lopuhäa, G.
Molenberghs, C.
Croux, M.
Hubert, S.
Van Aelst and T.
Verdonck.