Nicholas Horton

Nicholas (Nick) Horton is an American statistics professor and author. He is the Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society at Amherst College. In 2022, he began a 3-year term as the vice president of the American Statistical Association.

Education

Horton completed his A.B. at Harvard College and his Sc.D. at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Work

Horton has written multiple books focusing on R and SAS. He is also an author in the fields of statistics education and missing data. He is one of the authors of the GAISE guidelines. With Ben Baumer and Daniel Kaplan, he is the author of Modern Data Science with R. Other notable[citation needed] works include:

He is an editor for the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education (JSDSE).

Awards

Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Personal life

Horton resides in Northampton, Massachusetts with his wife, Julia Riseman. The two are advocates for bicycle trails.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Horton, Nicholas J. | Faculty & Staff | Amherst College". www.amherst.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
  2. ↑ "Alumnus Nick Horton Elected ASA Vice President". Retrieved October 13, 2023.
  3. ↑ Kleinman, Ken (2014). SAS and R: data management, statistical analysis, and graphics. Nicholas J. Horton (2nd ed.). Boca Raton. ISBN 978-1-4665-8450-1. OCLC 881692641.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ↑ "Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education Reports". www.amstat.org. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  5. ↑ Baumer, Benjamin S. (2021). Modern data science with R. Daniel T. Kaplan, Nicholas J. Horton (2nd ed.). Boca Raton. ISBN 978-0-367-19149-8. OCLC 1245354400.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ↑ Goldstein, Jill M.; Seidman, Larry J.; Horton, Nicholas J.; Makris, Nikos; Kennedy, David N.; Caviness, Verne S. Jr; Faraone, Stephen V.; Tsuang, Ming T. (2001-06-01). "Normal Sexual Dimorphism of the Adult Human Brain Assessed by In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging". Cerebral Cortex. 11 (6): 490–497. doi:10.1093/cercor/11.6.490. ISSN 1047-3211. PMID 11375910.
  7. ↑ Horton, Nicholas J.; Kleinman, Ken P. (2007-02-01). "Much ado about nothing: A comparison of missing data methods and software to fit incomplete data regression models". The American Statistician. 61 (1): 79–90. doi:10.1198/000313007X172556. ISSN 0003-1305. PMC 1839993. PMID 17401454.
  8. ↑ "Meet the ASA's 2022 Incoming Editors | Amstat News". 2022-02-01. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  9. ↑ "American Statistical Association Names 48 Fellows for 2012". PRWeb. Archived from the original on June 30, 2018. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
  10. ↑ "2017 AAAS Fellows Recognized for Advancing Science | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
  11. ↑ Dunau, Bera (2019-08-31). "A new dawn for rail? Valley Flyer pilot makes its debut". Amherst Bulletin.
  12. ↑ Kohout, George (2016-01-06). "George Kohout: Recognizing two unsung heroes of Northampton trails, greenways". Daily Hampshire Gazette.