Gerda Claeskens

Gerda Claeskens is a Belgian statistician. She is a professor of statistics in the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, associated with the KU Research Centre for Operations Research and Business Statistics (ORSTAT).[1]

Contributions

Claeskens is an expert in nonparametric statistics and in model selection, including model averaging. She is known for developing, with Nils Lid Hjort, the focused information criterion for model selection. With Hjort, she is the author of the book Model Selection and Model Averaging (Cambridge University Press, 2008).[2]

Education and career

Claeskens earned a licentiate in mathematics at the University of Antwerp in 1995. In 1999, she earned a master's degree in biostatistics and Ph.D. in mathematics, at Limburgs Universitair Centrum (now the University of Hasselt);[3] her dissertation, supervised by Marc Aerts, was Smoothing Techniques and Bootstrap Methods for Multiparameter Likelihood.[3][4] She did postdoctoral research at the Australian National University. Afterwards, she was an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (from 1999 to 2000) and at Texas A&M University (from 2000 to 2004). She joined the KU Leuven faculty in 2004, and was promoted to full professor there in 2012.[3]

Recognition

In 2004, Claeskens won the Noether Young Scholar Award of the American Statistical Association.[5] She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[6] In 2012 she was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and in 2016 she was a Medallion Lecturer for the Institute, speaking about her work on model selection and model averaging.[5] In 2019 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[7]

References
  1. "Gerda Claeskens", KU Leuven Who's Who, KU Leuven, retrieved 2017-11-24
  2. Reviews of Model Selection and Model Averaging:
    • Liski, Erkki P. (April 2009), International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique, 77 (1): 156, JSTOR 27919706CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Loughin, Thomas M. (June 2009), Biometrics, 65 (2): 666, doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01247_7.x, JSTOR 25502336CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Olive, David J. (August 2009), Technometrics, 51 (3): 343–344, JSTOR 40586635CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Ginestet, Cedric E. (October 2009), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 172 (4): 937, doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00614_5.x, JSTOR 20622559CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Acion, Laura (December 2009), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 104 (488): 1721–1722, JSTOR 40592383CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Verkuilen, J. (December 2009), Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 34 (4): 561–562, doi:10.3102/1076998609341364, JSTOR 25654097, S2CID 117270767CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  3. Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2017-11-24
  4. Gerda Claeskens at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Medallion lecture preview: Gerda Claeskens", IMS Bulletin, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, March 31, 2016
  6. Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 2017-11-24
  7. ASA Fellow Announcement (PDF), American Statistical Association, retrieved 2019-05-12


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