Simon J. Sheather is an Australian-American academic. He became the 8th dean of the

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on July 1st, 2018. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Sheather is known for the Sheather-Jones bandwidth selection method for

kernel density estimation In statistics, kernel density estimation (KDE) is the application of kernel smoothing for probability density estimation, i.e., a non-parametric method to estimate the probability density function of a random variable based on ''kernels'' as w ...

Early life and education

Sheather was born and raised in Australia, the son of a bank clerk and a nurse. Sheather graduated with 1st Class Honours in mathematical statistics from the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

and earned his Ph.D. in statistics from

La Trobe University La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora. The university was established in 1964, becoming the third university in the state of Victoria an ...

Career

His academic career includes professorships at the University of New South Wales and Texas A&M University as well as visiting professorships at Pennsylvania State University and the Stern School of Business at New York University. While at Texas A&M, he started two professional master’s programs. In 2021, Sheather was named as the first holder of the Truist Chair in Data Analytics.

Selected works

* Simon, Sheather (2009), A Modern Approach to Regression with R, Springer * Sheather, S.J.; Jones, M.C. (1991). "A reliable data-based bandwidth selection method for kernel density estimation". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 53 (3): 683–690. doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1991.tb01857.x
JSTOR 2345597

Recognition

Sheather was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2001.

References

External links

Sheather Data Analytics
Official website
Simon Sheather publications indexed by Google Scholar
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sheather, Simon American statisticians Australian statisticians Fellows of the American Statistical Association University of Kentucky faculty La Trobe University alumni University of Melbourne alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people)