Brian D. Ripley

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Brian David Ripley
Born (1952-04-29) 29 April 1952 (age 71)
CitizenshipBritish
Alma mater
Imperial College (1976–83)
University of Strathclyde (1983–90)
St Peter's College, Oxford (1990–2014)
Thesis Stochastic Geometry and the Analysis of Spatial Patterns  (1976)
Doctoral advisorDavid George Kendall
Doctoral studentsMatthew Stephens
Jonathan Marchini

Brian David Ripley

professorial fellow at St Peter's College. He retired August 2014 due to ill health.[1]

Biography

Ripley has made contributions to the fields of

artificial neural networks in the 1990s helped to bring aspects of machine learning and data mining to the attention of statistical audiences.[2] He emphasised the value of robust statistics
in his books Modern Applied Statistics with S and Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks.

Ripley helped develop the

S programming language and its implementations: S-PLUS[citation needed] and R.[3] He co-authored two books based on S, Modern Applied Statistics with S and S Programming.[4][5] From 2000 to 2021 he was one of the most active committers to the R core.[6]

He was educated at the

Imperial College, London from 1976 until 1983, at which point he moved to the University of Strathclyde.[8]

Authored books

References

  1. ^ Professor Ripley's Homepage at Oxford University. Accessed 2015-05-10.
  2. JSTOR 2965437
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  3. ^ "R: Contributors". Retrieved 17 April 2020.
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  5. . Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  6. ^ Eddelbuettel, Dirk (20 March 2021). "An Ode to Stable Interfaces: R and R Core Deserve So Much Praise". Thinking Inside the Box. Archived from the original on 21 March 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
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  8. ^ Profile of Professor Brian D Ripley (Last edited 1 October 1999 by Brian Ripley). Accessed 2010-12-28.

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