Dr. David Sheldon Moore is a statistician, who is well-known for his leadership of statistics textbooks and education for many decades. He retired in 2004 as a Shanti Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Emeritus at Purdue University. Dr. Moore got his A.B. from Princeton University and earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Cornell University.

David Moore is the author of a series of influential textbooks in statistical science, including An Introduction to the Basic Practice of Statistics, Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, and Statistics: Concepts and Controversies. His research is focused on the asymptotic theory of robust and nonparametric stats.