Peter J. Huber

Peter Jost Huber (born 25 March 1934) is a Swissstatistician. He is known for his contributions to the development of heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors.

A native of Wohlen, Aargau, Huber earned his Ph.D. at the ETH Zürich in 1962, under the supervision of Beno Eckmann. He later changed his research area from topology to statistics. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.