David Gerbing

Professor David Gerbing is a leading academic in the field of data science with over 86,000 citations across the methodological and social/behavioural sciences literature. One of his most popular recent projects has been the development of lessR, a package for the widely used and free data analysis programming language R. lessR is now being downloaded more than 1200 times a week. Professor Gerbing obtained his M.A. and PhD in Quantitative Methods from Michigan State University in 1976 and 1979, respectively. In 1987, he joined the Portland State University School of Business where he continues to work as Professor and the primary technical resource in the Master of Science Degree program, Applied Data Science for Business (MD-ADSB), offered by the School of Business, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA.