Peter Guttorp is a statistician, born in Sweden, with most of his career in the United States. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington [1] and professor at the Norwegian Computing Center. [2] Most of his work is in stochastic modeling of scientific data in hematology, geosciences, and climatology, with particular focus on spatial and spatio-temporal approaches. He has also worked in the history of statistics.
Guttorp received a journalist exam from the Stockholm School of Journalism in 1969, and a PhD in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980. [3] He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Lund University in 2009. [4]
Guttorp is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, [5] and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. [6] He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute [7] and served on its executive committee as vice president from 2017 to 2021. [8] He was president of the International Environmetric Society from 2002 to 2004. [9]
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