Grace Wahba
Grace Wahba · Science & Medicine
Statistics; smoothing splines and the representer theorem
1934, USA
United States
Grace Wahba is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Statistics; smoothing splines and the representer theorem
Wahba is an American statistician who pioneered the theory of smoothing splines and reproducing kernel Hilbert space methods, and the representer theorem, giving rigorous foundations to modern nonparametric regression and machine learning; she also introduced generalized cross-validation. She received the 2025 International Prize in Statistics. She is listed among Jewish contributors to mathematics; accessible biographical sources give little detail on her background.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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Statistics; smoothing splines and the representer theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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