Member Says Research at Insightful Beats Academia

摘要

I joined the Research Department at Insightful, creator of S-PLUS software, in 1996—after eight years in academia—to work on an NIH-funded project developing resampling software. My research focus was on computationally efficient methods for bootstrap calculations, and this was an opportunity to turn that research into widely usable software. With the aid of additional funding from NSF, my work resulted in the S+Resample library, as well as book chapters for use in teaching statistics (see www. insightful.com/Hesterberg/bootstrap). I've since been involved in a number of other projects offering a great deal of variety, including sequential designs for clinical trials, missing data using multiple imputations, stable distributions, simulation-based econometric software, visualization for multiple-bandwidth smoothing, functional data, long-memory data, image analysis, and seismic deformation estimation.