Andriëtte Bekker

Andriëtte Bekker (born 1958)[1] is a South African mathematical statistician. She is a professor at the University of Pretoria, and head of the statistics department at the university.[2]

Education

Bekker earned her Ph.D. in 1990 at the University of South Africa. Her dissertation, Veralgemening, samestelling en karakterisering as metodes om parameterryke verdelings te vind [Generalising, compounding, and characterising as methods to obtain parameter-rich distributions], was supervised by J. J. J. Roux.[3]

Recognition

Bekker is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.[4]

References
  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-08-22
  2. Prof Andriëtte Bekker, University of Pretoria Statistics, retrieved 2020-08-22
  3. Gerdes, Paulus (2007), African Doctorates in Mathematics: A Catalogue, African Mathematical Union Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa, p. 274
  4. ISI Elected Members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 2020-08-22
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