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Nicholas Horton
American statistics professor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nicholas (Nick) Horton is an American statistics professor and author. He is the Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society at Amherst College.[1] In 2022, he began a 3-year term as the vice president of the American Statistical Association.[2]
Education
Horton completed his A.B. at Harvard College and his Sc.D. at the Harvard School of Public Health.[1]
Work
Horton has written multiple books focusing on R and SAS.[1][3] He is also an author in the fields of statistics education and missing data. He is one of the authors of the GAISE guidelines.[4] With Ben Baumer and Daniel Kaplan, he is the author of Modern Data Science with R.[5] Other notable[citation needed] works include:
- Normal Sexual Dimorphism of the Adult Human Brain Assessed by In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging [6]
- Much ado about nothing: A comparison of missing data methods and software to fit incomplete data regression models[7]
He is an editor for the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education (JSDSE).[8]
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Awards
Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[9]
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[10]
Personal life
Horton resides in Northampton, Massachusetts with his wife, Julia Riseman.[11] The two are advocates for bicycle trails.[12]
References
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