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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1999 - COPSS Presidents' Award
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Larry Wasserman is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their primary field of study is mathematics, with a particular focus on statistics and probability. The scope of their work spans several subfields including statistics and probability, artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation, epidemiology, and uncertainty in statistics and probability.

Wasserman's research addresses a wide range of topics within statistical methods and inference. Key topics include:

  • Statistical Methods and Inference
  • Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
  • Advanced Statistical Methods and Models
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models

They have published extensively in several notable academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Annals of Statistics
  • Journal of the American Statistical Association
  • Electronic Journal of Statistics
  • Biometrika

Recent papers by Wasserman include:

  • The huge Package for High-dimensional Undirected Graph Estimation in R, 2020, PubMed
  • Robust multivariate nonparametric tests via projection averaging, 2020, The Annals of Statistics
  • An open repository of real-time COVID-19 indicators, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Classification accuracy as a proxy for two-sample testing, 2021, The Annals of Statistics
  • Can auxiliary indicators improve COVID-19 forecasting and hotspot prediction?, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Wasserman has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Sivaraman Balakrishnan
  • Aaditya Ramdas
  • Valérie Ventura
  • Edward H. Kennedy
  • Ilmun Kim

The scientist has been recognized with multiple awards throughout their career. These include:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2010
  • COPSS Presidents' Award, 1999
  • Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), 1996

Best Publications

  • Computing Bayes Factors by Combining Simulation and Asymptotic Approximations

    Thomas J. Diciccio;Robert E. Kass;Adrian Raftery;Larry Wasserman

  • All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference

    Larry Wasserman

  • The Selection of Prior Distributions by Formal Rules

    Robert E. Kass;Larry Wasserman

  • All of Nonparametric Statistics

    Larry Wasserman

  • A Reference Bayesian Test for Nested Hypotheses and its Relationship to the Schwarz Criterion

    Robert E. Kass;Larry Wasserman

  • Bayesian model selection and model averaging

    Larry Wasserman

  • The Nonparanormal: Semiparametric Estimation of High Dimensional Undirected Graphs

    Han Liu;John Lafferty;Larry Wasserman

  • Sparse Additive Models

    Pradeep Ravikumar;John Lafferty;Han Liu;Larry Wasserman

  • High-dimensional variable selection

    Larry Wasserman;Kathryn Roeder

  • An overview of robust Bayesian analysis

    James O. Berger;Elías Moreno;Luis Raul Pericchi;M. Jesús Bayarri

  • Distribution-Free Predictive Inference for Regression

    Jing Lei;Max G'Sell;Alessandro Rinaldo;Ryan J. Tibshirani

  • Operating characteristics and extensions of the false discovery rate procedure

    Christopher Genovese;Larry Wasserman

  • Practical Bayesian Density Estimation Using Mixtures of Normals

    Kathryn Roeder;Larry Wasserman

  • Computing Bayes Factors Using a Generalization of the Savage-Dickey Density Ratio

    Isabella Verdinelli;Larry Wasserman

  • Genomic control, a new approach to genetic-based association studies.

    B Devlin;Kathryn Roeder;Larry Wasserman

  • High Dimensional Semiparametric Gaussian Copula Graphical Models.

    Han Liu;Fang Han;Ming Yuan;John D. Lafferty

  • All of Statistics

    Larry Wasserman

  • Topological Data Analysis

    Larry Wasserman

  • A stochastic process approach to false discovery control

    Christopher Genovese;Larry Wasserman

  • The huge package for high-dimensional undirected graph estimation in R

    Tuo Zhao;Han Liu;Kathryn Roeder;John Lafferty

  • The consistency of posterior distributions in nonparametric problems

    Andrew Barron;Mark J. Schervish;Larry Wasserman

  • On Bayesian analysis of mixtures with an unknown number of components. Discussion. Author's reply

    S. Richardson;P. J. Green;C. P. Robert;M. Aitkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Rinaldo
Alessandro Rinaldo The University of Texas at Austin
John Lafferty
John Lafferty Yale University
Aarti Singh
Aarti Singh Carnegie Mellon University
Robert C. Nichol
Robert C. Nichol University of Surrey
Han Liu
Han Liu Northwestern University
Kathryn Roeder
Kathryn Roeder Carnegie Mellon University
Frédéric Chazal
Frédéric Chazal French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Barnabás Póczos
Barnabás Póczos Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew W. Moore
Andrew W. Moore Carnegie Mellon University
Jeff Schneider
Jeff Schneider Carnegie Mellon University

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