Peter Guttorp, Professor of Statistics, Director of the Northwest Research Center for Statistics and the Environment, and member of the QERM interdisciplinary faculty, obtained a degree in journalism from the Stockholm School of Journalism in 1969. He received a B.S. in mathematics, mathematical statistics, and musicology from the University of Lund, Sweden, in 1974, and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley, in 1980. He joined the University of Washington faculty in September 1980.
Dr. Guttorp's research interests include uses of stochastic models in scientific applications in hydrology, atmospheric science, geophysics, environmental science, and hematology. He is an associate editor of Annals of Applied Statistics and International Statistical Review, and a member of the Editorial Boards of IMS Collections, Environmental and Ecological Statistics and Environmetrics. He is also former President of the International Environmetrics Society, a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. During 2004-2005 he was the Environmental Research Professor of the Swedish Institute of Graduate Engineers.
Teaching
W 08: STAT 498A: Environmental Statistics
STAT 499: Undergraduate Research in Water Quality
Sp 08: STAT 518: Stochastic Modeling III
STAT 583: Advanced Theory of Statistical Inference III
Other information
- Mail address and phone information
- email: peter "at" stat.washington.edu
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- Pictures of Eric and Kenji (updated 070316)
- Pictures of our cats (updated 070328)
- Peter's students
- Research activities
- Collaboration with University of Lund.
- Recent presentations
- Current schedule
- Stochastic Modeling of Scientific Data
- Statisticians active in IPCC
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