Bio
Guenther Walther studied mathematics, economics, and computer science at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany and received his Ph.D. in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 1994.
His research has focused on statistical methodology for detection problems, shape-restricted inference, and mixture analysis, and on statistical problems in astrophysics and in flow cytometry.
He received a Terman fellowship, a NSF CAREER award, and the Distinguished Teaching Award of the Dean of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, the Annals of Statistics, the Annals of Applied Statistics, and Statistical Science. He was program co-chair of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and served on the executive committee of IMS from 1998 to 2012.
2024-25 Courses
- Introduction to Applied Statistics
STATS 191 (Spr) - Introduction to Theoretical Statistics
STATS 200 (Win) - Statistical Learning and Data Science
STATS 202 (Aut) -
Independent Studies (5)
- Independent Study
DATASCI 199 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Independent Study
STATS 199 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Independent Study
STATS 299 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Industrial Research for Statisticians
STATS 398 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Research
STATS 399 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Independent Study
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Introduction to Statistical Methods: Precalculus
PSYCH 10, STATS 160, STATS 60 (Spr)
2022-23 Courses
- Introduction to Statistical Inference
STATS 200 (Aut) - Introduction to Statistical Methods: Precalculus
PSYCH 10, STATS 160, STATS 60 (Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Introduction to Applied Statistics
STATS 191 (Win)
- Introduction to Statistical Methods: Precalculus
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Julie Zhang -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Dileka Gunawardana -
Doctoral (Program)
Cherith Chen, Cole Citrenbaum, Louis Davis, Aymen Echarghaoui, Reese Feldmeier, Ryan Jeong, Junyi Liu, Alexandru Lopotenco, Bryan Park, Alessandro Sinai, Rui Sun, Skyler Wu, Qizhong Zhang