Adrian E. Raftery
Scholar

Adrian E. Raftery

Google Scholar ID: QN9RQAYAAAAJ
Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington
Bayesian statisticsCluster analysisDemographyAtmospheric sciencesStatistical demography
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
44,997
 
H-index
75
 
i10-index
202
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
91
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences; identified as the world's most cited researcher in mathematics for the decade 1995-2005 by Thomson-ISI; published numerous papers and books, including 'Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation Using mclust in R'; made an Honorary Life Member of the Irish Statistical Association.
Research Experience
  • Supervised 36 Ph.D. graduates, of whom 21 hold or have held tenure-track university faculty positions; gave lectures at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford, Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland, and the University of Kentucky.
Background
  • Blumstein-Jordan Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Sociology at the University of Washington. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences and the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. His work focuses on the development of new statistical methods for the social and environmental sciences.
Miscellany
  • Hobbies and interests not mentioned