Michael D. Escobar
# Michael D. Escobar

Michael David Escobar is an American biostatistician who is known for Bayesian nonparametrics, mixture models.

## Education and career

Escobar earned a degree in mathematics at Tufts University in 1981 followed by a doctorate in statistics at Yale University in 1988 under the supervision of John Hartigan. Between 1990 and 1994, he was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Escobar subsequently joined the University of Toronto faculty. In 2015, he was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association.

