Peter Bühlmann: Guy Medal in Silver
The Royal Statistical Society has awarded the 2018 Guy Medal in Silver to Professor Peter Bühlmann for his highly-cited paper "Stability selection", among other contributions.
The paper external page Stability selection was published in 2010, co-authored with Nicolai Meinshausen, was read to the Society and published in 2010. It proposes a very general method for improving the performance of an arbitrary variable selection algorithm. His citation also noted his 2016 discussion paper external page Causal inference using invariant prediction: identification and confidence intervals joint with Jonas Peters and Nicolai Meinshausen, which introduced a new notion of invariance into the causal inference literature and showed how this can be exploited, for instance to obtain confidence intervals for causal effects. (Source: StatsLife, 22 January 2018)
Peter Bühlmann has received the prize at the 2018 International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society held in Cardiff from 3 to 6 September 2018.
