| RefNo | EC/2019/47 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Tibshirani, Robert John: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 28 March 2019 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election of Robert Tibshirani as a Fellow of the Royal Society, including personal details of the elected Fellow and citing the reasons for election and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | For seminal contributions to the fields of bioinformatics and statistics and for the invention of methods for the analysis of high dimensional data, including the Lasso, Significance Analysis for Microarrays (SAM), and Prediction Analysis for Microarrays. This work has been enormously influential in many fields of science and his original papers on these topics have garnered thousands of citations. His book "The Elements of Statistical Learning" with Hastie and Friedman, now in its second edition, is a modern classic used around the world. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Computer printout |
| PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |