# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/grace-wahba
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:40:38.767Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/grace-wahba"
name: "Grace Wahba"
slug: "grace-wahba"
description: "Grace Goldsmith Wahba is an American statistician and retired I. J. Schoenberg-Hilldale Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is a pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data. Best known for the development of generalized cross-validation and \"Wahba's problem\", she has developed methods with applications in demographic studies, machine learning, DNA microarrays, risk modeling, medical imaging, and climate prediction."
tagline: "American statistician and university teacher (born 1934)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Grace_Wahba_1986.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1934-08-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.214076
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~wahba/"
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    title: "جراسى واهبا"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump