Peter John Bickel (born 1940) is an American statistician and Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Bickel has made contributions to bootstrapping, robust statistics, machine learning, and other areas of statistics.
Bickel studied physics at the California Institute of Technology. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D., in 1963, where he studied under Erich Leo Lehmann.
His students include C.F. Jeff Wu, Jianqing Fan, Katerina Kechris, Elizaveta Levina, Jingyi Jessica Li, and Donald Andrews.
He married Nancy Kramer in 1964; they have two children.