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Grace Wahba

American statistician and university teacher · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1934 · age 92

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.

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2025International Prize in StatisticsAward2014COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and LectureshipAward2009Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied MathematicsAward1994Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical InnovationAward1980Fellow of the American Statistical AssociationAward1974Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsAward1934Born3 August 1934

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International Prize in Statistics2025
COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship2014
Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics2009
Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation1994
Fellow of the American Statistical Association1980
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics1974
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

About this person

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.

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United States
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Academics
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Academic
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Living
Dates
Born 1934 · age 92

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