Tim Hesterberg

Tim Hesterberg is an American statistician. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and currently works as a staff data scientist at Instacart.

Education and career Tim Hesterberg graduated with a B.A in mathematics from St. Olaf College and received his Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University. He is a member of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences(NISS) and was previously on the NISS Board of Trustees. He is currently on the board of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute. A 2015 article titled "What Teachers Should Know About the Bootstrap: Resampling in the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum". A 2015 R (programming language) software package titled 'resample: Resampling Functions'. It performs bootstraps, permutation tests, and other sampling refunctions, and is intended to be easy to use. "Least-Angle Regression and LASSO for Large Datasets", and "Least Angle and L1 Penalized Regression: A Review".