Roger William Koenker (born February 21, 1947) is an American econometrician mostly known for his contributions to quantile regression.
[2] He finished his degree at Grinnell College in 1969 and obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1974.
By 1976, he left the university to work as part of the technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
[3] In 2010, he was awarded the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation for his contribution to the field and for "pioneering and expositing quantile regression.
"[4] Aside from his seminal book, Quantile Regression, his published works include The Gaussian Hare and the Laplacian Tortoise: Computability of Squared-Error vs. Absolute Error Estimators; and, Galton, Edgeworth, Frisch, and Prospects for Quantile Regression in Economics, among others.