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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  1. ^ "People, Department of Statistics, University of Washington".
  2. ^ "Peter Guttorp". NR. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
  3. ^ "Peter Malte Guttorp | Department of Statistics". statistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
  4. ^ "Hedersdoktorer genom åren". Lunds tekniska högskola (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-07-13.
  5. ^ "ASA Fellows List". www.amstat.org. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  6. ^ "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Honored IMS Fellows". Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  7. ^ "ISI Elected Members - ISI". www.isi-web.org. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  8. ^ "Executive Committee - ISI". www.isi-web.org. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
  9. ^ ""The reason I do statistics is I'm interested in so many different things": An interview with Peter Guttorp". Stats & Data Science Views. Retrieved 2021-07-13.