Peter Dalgaard

Peter Dalgaard (born 1959) is a Danish statistician and one of the core developers of the R statistical programming language.^[1] He is a professor at Copenhagen Business School^[2] and was previously a professor of biostatistics at the University of Copenhagen, where he obtained his MSc in 1985 and PhD in 1991.^[3]

Dalgaard co-edited the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics from 2016 to 2018.^[4]

Selected publications

• Dalgaard, Peter (2008). Introductory Statistics with R. Statistics and Computing (Second ed.). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-79054-1. ISBN 978-0-387-79053-4.