Tim Hesterberg

Tim Hesterberg is an American statistician. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and currently works as a staff data scientist at Instacart.

Education and career

Tim Hesterberg graduated with a B.A in mathematics from St. Olaf College and received his Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University.^[1] He is a member of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences(NISS) and was previously on the NISS Board of Trustees. He is currently on the board of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute.^[1] Hesterberg previously worked as a senior statistician at Google as well as at Franklin and Marshall College, Pacific Gas & Electric Co, and Insightful/MathSoft.^[1] He is currently a senior statistician at Instacart.

Research

Hesterberg has contributed to statistical research by writing a textbook, articles, and a software package:

• A 2011 undergraduate student textbook titled Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R.^[2]
• A 2015 article titled "What Teachers Should Know About the Bootstrap: Resampling in the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum".^[3]
• A 2015 R (programming language) software package titled 'resample: Resampling Functions'.^[4] It performs bootstraps, permutation tests, and other sampling refunctions, and is intended to be easy to use.^[4]
• Scientific articles including "Bootstrap",^[5] "Least-Angle Regression and LASSO for Large Datasets",^[6] and "Least Angle and L1 Penalized Regression: A Review".^[7]