Adele Cutler
Statistician
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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]
Adele Cutler | |
|---|---|
| Education | |
| Spouse | Richard Cutler |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Workplaces | Utah State University |
| Thesis | Optimization Methods in Statistics (1988) |
| Leo Breiman | |
Early life and education
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]
Career
After completing her doctorate she joined the faculty at Utah State University in 1988.[4] Her initial research there concerned mixture models, but shifted towards neural networks in the mid-1990s and from there to random decision trees, the basis of the random forest technique.[6]
