Siddhartha Chib
Siddhartha Chib | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara Indian Institutes of Management Delhi University |
| Known for | Framework for understanding the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm and its extensions in high-dimensional settings |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Statistical Association |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Econometrics, statistics |
| Institutions | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Thesis | Some Contributions to Likelihood Based Prediction Methods (1986) |
| Academic advisors | Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Thomas F. Cooley |
| Website | siddharthachib |
Siddhartha Chib is an econometrician, statistician, and the Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. His work is primarily in Bayesian statistics, econometrics, and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. Chib's research spans a wide range of topics in Bayesian statistics, with influential contributions to statistical modeling, computational methods, and Bayesian model comparison techniques.