Applied Statistics - Brian Ripley 

 This week the Applied Statistics Workshop will present a talk by  Brian Ripley , Professor of Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford.  Professor Ripley received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and has been on the faculties of Imperial College, Strathclyde, and Oxford.  His current research interests are in pattern recognition and related areas, although he has worked extensively in spatial statistics and simulation, and continues to maintain an interest in those subjects. New statistical methods need good software if they are going to be adopted rapidly, so he maintains an interest in statistical computing.  He is the co-author of   Modern Applied Statistics with S  , currently in its fourth edition.  Professor Ripley is also a member of the R core team, which coordinates the R statistical computing project, a widely adopted open-source language for statistical analysis. 

 Professor Ripley will present a talk entitled "Visualization for classification and clustering." Slides for the talk are available from the  course website . The presentation will be at noon on Wednesday, April 26 in Room N354, CGIS North, 1737 Cambridge St. Lunch will be provided.