Peter Guttorp is a statistician, born in Sweden, with most of his career in the United States. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington^[1] and professor at the Norwegian Computing Center.^[2] Most of his work is in stochastic modeling of scientific data in hematology, geosciences, and climatology, with particular focus on spatial and spatio-temporal approaches. He has also worked in the history of statistics.

Guttorp received a journalist exam from the Stockholm School of Journalism in 1969, and a PhD in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980.^[3] He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Lund University in 2009.^[4]

Guttorp is a fellow of the American Statistical Association,^[5] and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.^[6] He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute^[7] and served on its executive committee as vice president from 2017 to 2021.^[8] He was president of the International Environmetric Society from 2002 to 2004.^[9]

Bibliography

• P. Guttorp and T. Löfström (1978): President de Huslund (in Swedish). Lund: Cavefors.
• P. Guttorp (1991): Statistical inference for branching processes. New York: Wiley.
• A. T. Walden and P. Guttorp, eds. (1992): Statistics in the Environmental and Earth Sciences. London: Edward Arnold
• P. Guttorp (1995): Stochastic modeling of scientific data. London: Chapman & Hall.
• A. Gelfand, P. Diggle, M. Fuentes and P. Guttorp (2010): Handbook in Spatial Statistics. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall.
• P. Guttorp and D. R. Brillinger (2011): Selected works of David Brillinger. New York: Springer.

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