Luca Scrucca
Professor Of Statistics
Umbria, Italy
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Top SchoolLuca Scrucca is a Full Professor of Statistics with over two decades of academic and research experience, now at the University of Bologna after a long tenure at the University of Perugia. His expertise spans statistical and machine learning methods with particular strength in mixture models for model-based clustering and classification, dimension reduction and regression graphics, and evolutionary algorithms. He serves as an associate editor for Journal of Statistical Software and Statistics and Computing, reflecting a strong presence in the statistical software and computational research community. Trained with a PhD from Perugia and an MS from the University of Minnesota, he combines rigorous theoretical grounding with practical algorithm development. Based in Umbria, Italy, he maintains an active web presence where he shares research and software tools that bridge methodology and applied data analysis.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Statistics, PhD, Statistics at Università degli Studi di PerugiaUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
English, Italian
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Github Skills (89)
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classification10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mclust-org/mclust-org.github.io
Dec 2018 - Jan 2026
Contributions:77 pushes, 2 comments, 1 issue in 7 years 2 months
cran/mclust
Jan 2017 - Oct 2022
:exclamation: This is a read-only mirror of the CRAN R package repository. mclust — Gaussian Mixture Modelling for Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation. Homepage: https://mclust-org.github.io/mclust/
Contributions:16 commits in 5 years 10 months
classificationclustering
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