Richard John Samworth FRS[1] (born May 1978) is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge,[2] and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. His main research interests are in nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics. Particular topics include shape-constrained density estimation and other nonparametric function estimation problems, nonparametric classification, clustering and regression, the bootstrap and high-dimensional variable selection problems.

Richard John Samworth
BornMay 1978 (age 46)
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisSome mathematical and theoretical aspects of the bootstrap (2004)
Doctoral advisorAlastair Young

Honours and awards

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Selected works

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  • Cannings, Timothy I.; Samworth, Richard J. (2017). "Random-projection ensemble classification". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology). 79 (4): 959–1035. arXiv:1504.04595. doi:10.1111/rssb.12228.
  • Cule, Madeleine; Samworth, Richard; Stewart, Michael (2010). "Maximum likelihood estimation of a multi-dimensional log-concave density". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology). 72 (5): 545–607. arXiv:0804.3989. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9868.2010.00753.x. S2CID 1524045.
  • Fan, J., Samworth, R. and Wu, Y. (2009), Ultrahigh dimensional feature selection: beyond the linear model, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10, 2013–2038.
  • Hall, Peter; Park, Byeong U.; Samworth, Richard J. (2008). "Choice of neighbor order in nearest-neighbor classification". The Annals of Statistics. 36 (5): 2135–2152. arXiv:0810.5276. doi:10.1214/07-AOS537.

References

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  • Richard Samworth's home page at the University of Cambridge.