Prof. Dr. Martin Mächler

Postal address Prof. Dr. Martin Mächler Seminar für Statistik Departement Mathematik HG G 16 Rämistrasse 101 8092 Zürich Switzerland More information Phone   +41 44 632 3408 Fax   +41 44 632 1228 E-Mail   Homepage   https://people.math.ethz.ch/~maechler

My old static homepage

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Professional Interests

• Statistical Computing Environments: Primarily R: I'm member of the R Core Development team and the R Foundation for the R Project.
  In 2014, there's been a nice interview (by Rebecca Wyss;   English or Deutsch) about me and my involvement with R.
  R originated as "dialect" of S which I had heavily used and propagated (also in its commercial version "S-PLUS"), before R matured beyond S.
  Slightly even more in the past, X-Lispstat had been novel and influential.
• Emacs Speaks Statistics =: ESS. I've been a Core Developer since about 1997, and am ESS project leader since August 2004.
• Clustering Algorithms (in teaching, also by maintaining the recommended R package cluster.
• Robust Statistical Methods (notably implementation with R: maintaing R package robustbase and the CRAN task view about robust statistical methods, Robust).
• Sparse Matrix algorithms and their implementation in R via S4 classes and methods, notably by co-maintaining the R package Matrix.
• `Wp' Smoothing (see Info); and simplifications of that approach, e.g., in R package cobs that I maintain.
• Variable Length Markov Chains (with R package VLMC and a publication in JCGS)
• Mailing List management, and spam filtering: I'm co-managing two dozen mailing lists, most notably the ones related to R
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Teaching

Slides (and Sweave snippets) of my invited talk "Good Practices for R Programming",
at useR! 2014 at UCLA.

see the Seminar für Statistik's lectures' page, and maybe also my miscellaneous collection of teaching material.

A xkcd comic depicting a (typical ?!) abuse of statistical significance testing.

Manuscripts

diverse unpublished manuscripts are available here.

Real life

Family

happily married to Liselotte and father of two grown up sons,
Andreas (pix) and Philipp.

Christian activities

I'm serving on the board of our Church, "Chrischona Zürich - Kirche die bewegt", and in the Dozentenforum.

Politics

From Sept.2008 to April 2014, I have been member of Zurich's city council (parliament)
"Gemeinderat" as delegate for "Kreis 7 and 8", for the Swiss "evangelical people's party" EVP / PEV.

Hobbies (other than the above ... whenever the day has more than 24 hours :-)

• Sports (Cross-country skiing: Engadin Skimarathon, swimming (in Zurich's lake!); jogging (in Zurich's forests; SOLA Staffette, ..), hiking (in the alps) ...
• Reading
• Listening to (many kinds of) music (including Last.Fm).