David S. Moore is an American statistician

Statistician

A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...

, who is known for his leadership of statistics education

Statistics education

Statistics education is concerned with the teaching and learning of statistics.Statistics is both a formal science and a practical theory of scientific inquiry, and both aspects are considered in statistics education. Education in statistics has similar concerns as does education in other...

 for many decades.

In statistics education, David S. Moore is the author of a series of influential textbooks in statistical science, which use only high school algebra: Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (with George McCabe), of An Introduction to the Basic Practice of Statistics, and of Statistics: Concepts and Controversies.

In statistical science, David S. Moore has done research in the asymptotic theory of robust

Robust statistics

Robust statistics provides an alternative approach to classical statistical methods. The motivation is to produce estimators that are not unduly affected by small departures from model assumptions.- Introduction :...

 and nonparametric statistics.

David S. Moore is now Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Emeritus at Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

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