Luca Scrucca
Department of Statistical Sciences
Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
Academic Bio
Hello, I’m an applied statistician. In a broader sense, I’m also a data scientist because I do data analysis, and I do research on the methodology and computational aspects of data analysis. I’m an enthusiastic R user and package developer.
I’m also serving as Associate Editor for Journal of Statistical Software and Statistics and Computing.
Interests
- Mixture models
- Model-based clustering and classification
- Data science
- Statistical machine learning
- Dimension reduction methods and regression graphics
- Genetic and evolutionary algorithms
Education
Università degli Studi di Perugia
2000
University of Minnesota
2000
Research
Book
Scrucca L., Fraley C., Murphy T. B. and Raftery A. E. (2023) Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation Using mclust in R, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press.
ISBN: 978-1032234953
eBook ISBN: 978-1003277965
Selected publications
Full list of publications
Software
I’m the author and/or maintainer of several packages and functions written in R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, using RStudio, an integrated development environment (IDE) for R.
Teaching
Laurea in “Statistica, Finanza e Assicurazioni”
Laurea in “Statistica, Finanza e Assicurazioni”
Laurea Magistrale in “Scienze Statistiche, Finanziarie e Attuariali”
Dipartimento di Economia (sede di Terni)
Università degli Studi di Perugia
Contact
Prof. Luca Scrucca