Mathematician:William Swain Cleveland

Mathematician

American computer scientist and professor of Statistics known for his work on data visualization, particularly on nonparametric regression and local regression.

Remembered as one of the developers of the S programming language.

Also known for his work developing the lowess technique for fitting smooth curves to large data sets.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 1943

Publications

• 1979: Robust locally weighted regression and smoothing scatterplots (JASA Vol. 74, no. 368: pp. 829 – 836)  www.jstor.org/stable/2286407
• 1985: The Elements of Graphing Data
• 1993: Visualizing Data

Also known as

Properly styled as William Swain Cleveland $\text{II}$.