Peter Dalgaard (born 1959) is a Danish

statistician A statistician is a person who works with Theory, theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private sector, private and public sectors. It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, a ...

and one of the core developers of the R statistical programming language. He is a professor at

Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School (Danish'': Handelshøjskolen i København'') often abbreviated and referred to as CBS (also in Danish), is a public university situated in Copenhagen, Denmark and is considered one of the most prestigious business scho ...

and was previously a professor of

biostatistics Biostatistics (also known as biometry) is a branch of statistics that applies statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experimen ...

at the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

, where he obtained his MSc in 1985 and PhD in 1991. Dalgaard co-edited the ''

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics The ''Scandinavian Journal of Statistics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal of statistics. It was established in 1974 by four Scandinavian statistical learned societies. It is published by John Wiley & Sons and the editors-in-chief a ...

'' from 2016 to 2018.

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* Date of birth missing (living people) Living people 1959 births Danish statisticians R (programming language) people University of Copenhagen alumni Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen Academic staff of Copenhagen Business School {{Denmark-bio-stub