Irène Gijbels
Irène Gijbels is a mathematical statistician at KU Leuven in Belgium,[1] and an expert on nonparametric statistics. She has also collaborated with TopSportLab, a KU Leuven spin-off, on software for risk assessment of sports injuries.[2]
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Education and career
Gijbels earned her Ph.D. in 1990 from Limburgs Universitair Centrum. Her dissertation, supervised by Noël Veraverbeke, was Asymptotic Representations under Random Censoring.[3]
She joined KU Leuven after postdoctoral research as a Fulbright scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.[4]
Book
With Jianqing Fan, Gijbels is the author of Local Polynomial Modelling and Its Applications (CRC Press, 1996).[5]
Recognition
Gijbels is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, and a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[4][6]
References
- "Irène Gijbels", KU Leuven Who's Who, retrieved 2017-10-29
- TopSportLab improves performance for professional sports people, KU Leuven, retrieved 2017-10-29
- Irène Gijbels at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Speaker biography", 58th Conference of the South African Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-10-29
- Reviews of Local Polynomial Modelling and Its Applications: Theo Gasser (1997), Mathematical Reviews, MR1383587; Hans-Georg Muller (June 1998), Journal of the American Statistical Association 93 (442): 835–836, doi:10.2307/2670134.
- Irène Gijbels opgenomen als lid van de KVAB, KU Leuven Department of Mathematics, 2016, retrieved 2017-10-29
External links
- Irène Gijbels publications indexed by Google Scholar