Mia Hubert is a Belgian mathematical statistician known for her research on topics in robust statistics including medoid-based clustering,[a] regression depth,[b] the medcouple for robustly measuring skewness,[c] box plots for skewed data,[f] and robust principal component analysis,[d] and for her implementations of robust statistical algorithms in the R statistical software system, MATLAB,[e] and S-PLUS.
[a] She is a professor in the statistics and data science section of the department of mathematics at KU Leuven.
Her dissertation, Robust Regression for Data Analysis, was supervised by Peter Rousseeuw.
[2] She was the original developer of the R package cluster along with Peter Rousseeuw and Anja Struyf.
[4] Hubert became an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute in 2013.