Robert D. Gibbons is a professor in the field of statistics, with expertise in biostatistics, environmental statistics, and psychometrics. He holds the position of Blum-Riese Professor and Pritzker Scholar at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Departments of Medicine, Public Health Sciences (Biostatistics), and Comparative Human Development. Gibbons is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the International Statistical Institute, and the Royal Statistical Society, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has made contributions to statistical work spanning areas such as longitudinal data analysis, item response theory, environmental statistics, and drug safety, with over 350 peer-reviewed scientific papers and several books to his name. Source: Wikipedia (en)