Friedhelm Eicker

Friedhelm Eicker (5 April 1927 – 19 March 2022) was a German statistician and former professor at the University of Dortmund. He is known for his contributions in the development of heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors.[1]

Friedhelm Eicker
Born(1927-04-05)5 April 1927
Died19 March 2022(2022-03-19) (aged 94)
Alma materUniversity of Mainz
Known forHeteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Dortmund
ThesisStatistische Theorie der Phasenumwandlung von Paraffinkristallen: Unter Berücksichtigung der Molekülverdrillung bei mittlerer Kettenlänge (1956)
Doctoral studentsThomas Royen
Websitewww.statistik.tu-dortmund.de/eicker.html

A native of Radevormwald, Eicker earned his PhD from the University of Mainz in 1956.[2]

References

  1. Eicker, Friedhelm (1967). "Limit Theorems for Regression with Unequal and Dependent Errors". Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability. Vol. 5. University of California Press. pp. 59–82. MR 0214223. Zbl 0217.51201.
  2. Friedhelm Eicker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project


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