Adele Cutler
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Adele Cutler | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | |
| Spouse | Richard Cutler |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Utah State University |
| Thesis | Optimization Methods in Statistics (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leo Breiman |
Adele Cutler is a statistician known as one of the developers of archetypal analysis[1] and of the random forest technique for ensemble learning.[2] She is a professor of mathematics and statistics at Utah State University.[3]
Originally from England, Cutler moved to New Zealand as a child,[4] and studied mathematics at the University of Waikato and the University of Auckland.[3] She met her husband, statistician Richard Cutler, at the University of Auckland; the couple both went on to graduate study in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley,[4] where she earned a master's degree in 1984 and completed her doctorate in 1988.[3] Her dissertation, Optimization Methods in Statistics, was supervised by Leo Breiman.[5] Her doctoral work with Breiman concerned mathematical optimization techniques in statistics, and introduced archetypal analysis.[6]
