Elizbar A. Nadaraya

Èlizbar Nadaraya is a Georgian mathematician who is currently a Full Professor and the Chair of the Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at the Tbilisi State University. He developed the Nadaraya-Watson estimator along with Geoffrey Watson, which proposes estimating the conditional expectation of a random variable as a locally weighted average using a kernel as a weighting function.

Nadaraya was born in 1936 in Khobi, Georgia. He received his doctoral degree from the V.I. Romanovski Institute of Mathematics, Tashkent in 1981. He has since co-authored over 120 publications including 5 textbooks in the area of probability and statistics.

Most cited publications

Book E. A. Nadaraya, Nonparametric Estimation of Probability Densities and Regression Curves Springer, 1989 Nonparametric Estimation of Probability Densities and Regression Curves ISBN 978-90-277-2757-2 (Cited 319 times, according to Google Scholar. ) Nadaraya, E.A., 1965. On non-parametric estimates of density functions and regression curves. Theory of Probability & Its Applications, 10(1), pp. 186–190. (Cited 673 times, according to Google Scholar. ) Nadaraya EA. Some new estimates for distribution functions. Theory of Probability & Its Applications. 1964;9(3):497-500. (Cited 329 times, according to Google Scholar. )