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David W. Scott is a American statistician and a professor in the Department of Statistics at Rice University.

Biography
Scott received his B.A. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics in 1972, and Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from Rice University in 1976.

He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1990, of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1990, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1987. He received Founders Award from American Statistical Association in August, 2008.

Selected works
Scott has written many research papers about Nonparametric Density Estimation, Computational Statistics, Data Visualization, and Data Mining. He has also written two advanced statistics textbooks, Nonparametric Density Estimation and Statistics: A Concise Mathematical Introduction for Students, Scientists, and Engineers.


 * 2004. All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference. Springer-Verlag, New York. ISBN 978-0387402727
 * won DeGroot Prize 2005.


 * 2006. All of Nonparametric Statistics. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-25145-5
 * 2013. Topological Inference. Reitz Lecture 2013.

Honors and awards

 * 2008, Founders Award of American Statistical Associations