Robert Tibshirani

Honors and Awards

• Alumni Achievement Award, University of Waterloo (2006)
• E.W Steacie Prize, NSERC- Canada (1998)
• President's award, Committee of Presidents of Statistical societies (1997)
• Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (1997)
• Guggenheim fellowship, Guggenheim foundation (1994)

Internet Links

• Personal Web site

Current Research Interests

My research is in applied statistics and biostatistics. I specialize in computer-intensive methods for regression and classification, bootstrap, cross-validation and statistical inference, and signal and image analysis for medical diagnosis.

Publications

• Strong rules for discarding predictors in lasso-type problems robert tibshirani, bien,friedman,Hastie,Simon,Taylor,Tibshirani. J. Royal stat. Assoc B. 2012: 74 245-266
• Adaptive index models for marker-based risk stratification. Tian L, Tibshirani R. Biostatistics. 2011; 12 (1): 68-86
• Finding consistent patterns: A nonparametric approach for identifying differential expression in RNA-Seq data. Li J, Tibshirani R. Stat Methods Med Res. 2011
• In situ vaccination against mycosis fungoides by intratumoral injection of a TLR9 agonist combined with radiation: a phase I/II study. Kim YH, Gratzinger D, Harrison C, Brody JD, Czerwinski DK, Ai WZ, Morales A, Abdulla F, Xing L, Navi D, Tibshirani RJ, Advani RH, Lingala B, Shah S, Hoppe RT, Levy R. Blood. 2011
• MicroRNAs are independent predictors of outcome in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients treated with R-CHOP. Alencar AJ, Malumbres R, Kozloski GA, Advani R, Talreja N, Chinichian S, Briones J, Natkunam Y, Sehn LH, Gascoyne RD, Tibshirani R, Lossos IS. Clin Cancer Res. 2011; 17 (12): 4125-35