PROFESSOR GRACE WAHBA: Leading statistical scientist and pioneer of smoothing splines

                                                                           

   


Grace Wahba was one of my most active colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I was a member of the Ph.D,. Committee for a number of her students



                                                                           

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Based upon J.J. Shiau's thesis work. Appeared in Journal of Oceanic and Atmospheric Technology

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Grace's most brilliant Ph.D.student

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A highly prolific chip off two old blocks!

Chapter 6 of my academic life story, The Life of a Bayesian Boy

Richard Johnson, Grace Wahba, George Box, Tom Leonard, Tim Read, and John Gurland participating in the Statistics Department comedy skit in Madison, Wisconsin, during December 1983

Some of my own related work:

A BAYESIAN METHOD FOR HISTOGRAMS (1973)

DENSITY ESTIMATION, STOCHASTIC PROCESSES AND PRIOR INFORMATION (1978)

AN EMPIRICAL BAYESIAN APPROACH TO THE SMOOTH ESTIMATION OF UNKNOWN FUNCTIONS (1982)

HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN SEMI-PARAMETRIC PROCEDURES FOR LOGISTIC REGRESSION (1997)