Peter Bruce Email & Phone Number

Twitter: @petercbruce (personal) and @statisticscomPeter Bruce is the Founder of the Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com (now part of Elder Research) in Arlington, VA. Founded in 2002, the Institute specializes in introductory and graduate level online education in statistics, optimization, risk modeling, predictive modeling, data mining, and other subjects in quantitative analytics.Prior to founding Statistics.com, in partnership with the noted economist Julian Simon, Peter continued and commercialized the development of Simon's Resampling Stats, a tool for bootstrapping and resampling. In his work at Cytel Software Corp., he developed Box Sampler along similar lines, and helped bring XLMiner, a machine learning add-in for Excel, to market. He is the author of "Introductory Statistics and Analytics: A Resampling Perspective" (Wiley, 2014), and a co-author of "Statistics for Data Science" (with P. Gedeck and J. Dobbins), "Machine Learning for Business Analytics" (Wiley, 13 editions, versions and translations, 2016, with G. Shmueli, P. Gedeck, I. Yahav, M. Stephens and N. Patel), and "Practical Statistics for Data Scientists" (O'Reilly, 2nd ed. 2020, with P. Gedeck and A. Bruce), and "Responsible Data Science" (Wiley, 2021, with G. Fleming). His books have appeared in 6 languages. Before his retirement in 2024, Peter's role at the Institute centered on course development and faculty recruitment - there are over 60 faculty members from around the world who are published experts in their fields; most teach from their own texts. He also teaches a course on resampling methods.Peter has degrees in Russian from Princeton and Harvard, and an MBA from the University of Maryland; he is an autodidact in the area of statistics. Prior to his work in statistics, Peter worked in the US diplomatic corps as a Foreign Service Officer.

Listed skills include Statistics, Data Mining, Predictive Modeling, Data Analysis, and 10 others.