| Peter J. Huber | |
| Birth Date: | 25 March 1934 |
| Birth Place: | Wohlen, Aargau |
| Nationality: | Swiss |
| Fields: | Statistics |
| Workplaces: | ETH Zürich Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Bayreuth |
| Alma Mater: | ETH Zürich |
| Doctoral Advisors: | )--> |
| Doctoral Students: | David Donoho Emery N. Brown |
| Known For: | Heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors |
Peter Jost Huber (born 25 March 1934) is a Swiss statistician. He is known for his contributions to the development of heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors.[1]
A native of Wohlen, Aargau, Huber earned his Ph.D. at the ETH Zürich in 1962, under supervision of Beno Eckmann. He later changed his research area from topology to statistics.[2] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[3]