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Doctoral advisor
  
Alastair Young

Name
  
Richard Samworth

Fields
  
Statistics


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Residence
  
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Institutions
  
University of Cambridge

Thesis
  
Some mathematical and theoretical aspects of the bootstrap (2004)

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Richard John Samworth (born May 1978) is Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. Currently, his main research interests are in nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics. Particular topics include shape-constrained density and other nonparametric function estimation problems, nonparametric classification, clustering and regression, the bootstrap and high-dimensional variable selection problems.

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Honours and awards

  • The Adams Prize 2017
  • Fellow, American Statistical Association (2015 election)
  • The Philip Leverhulme Prize 2014, Leverhulme Trust
  • Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2014 election)
  • The Guy Medal in Bronze 2012, Royal Statistical Society
  • The Research Prize 2008, Royal Statistical Society
  • Selected works

  • Cule, M. L., Samworth, R. J. and Stewart, M. I. (2010), Maximum likelihood estimation of a multidimensional log-concave density, J. Roy. Statist. Soc., Ser. B. (with discussion), to appear.
  • Fan, J., Samworth, R. and Wu, Y. (2009), Ultrahigh dimensional feature selection: beyond the linear model, J. Machine Learning Research, 10, 2013–2038.
  • Hall, P., Park, B. U. and Samworth, R. J. (2008), Choice of neighbour order in nearest-neighbour classification, Ann. Stat., 36, 2135–2152
  • References

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