Gerda Claeskens            Professor of Statistics

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Publications
Curriculum Vitae

To the book website:
Model Selection and Model Averaging - cover

Address:
    OR & Business Statistics                                                                           
    KU Leuven
    Naamsestraat 69
    3000 Leuven, Belgium

    Phone: +32-(0)16/32.6993
    Fax:     +32-(0)16/32.6732

     gerda.claeskens at kuleuven dot be

Research Interests:
    * Lack of fit tests and Goodness of fit tests
    * Model selection and model averaging
    * Nonparametric estimation (kernel smoothers, local polynomials,regression splines) 


    New: Workshop "Model Selection, Nonparametrics and Dependence Modeling", July 8-9, Rennes, France

             http://atms.ensai.fr/?lang=en


Postdoctoral researcher:

    * Jean-Marc Freyermuth

PhD Students:

     * Ali Charkhi (research ongoing).

      * Eugen Pircalabelu (research ongoing).
     * Lore Dirick (research ongoing).   

     * Kukatharmini Tharmaratnam, obtained her PhD degree on July 4, 2011, "Robust estimation and model                   selection in semiparametric regression models".

        * Leen Slaets, obtained her PhD degree on May 26, 2011, "Analyzing phase and amplitude variation of                    functional data".   

     * Fabrizio Consentino, obtained his PhD degree on 27 April 2009, "Modelling the missingness: estimation,             testing and model selection".

      * Johan Van Kerckhoven (co-advised with C. Croux), graduated 17 Jan. 2008. "Predictive modelliong:                    variable selection and classification efficiencies".

    

If you are interested in obtaining a PhD with a statistical topic such as model selection, nonparametric estimation, goodness-of-fit tests,... please contact me.  

                                                                                                                                                                                              

Associate editor of:     

    * Biometrika (2008-)
    * Journal of the American Statistical Association (2005-2011)
    * Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (2008-)

    * Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference( 2012-)

    * Guest editor for Computational Statistics and Data Analysis(2011-2012), special issue on Model Selection.

     * The Annals of Statistics (2013-)

Fast breaking paper in the field of Mathematics: Frequentist Model Averaging, JASA 2003 (Hjort & Claeskens).This paper belongs to the top 1% of papers in the field and received the largest percentage increase in citations. For more information and a short interview, see the Thomson ISI essential science indicators website.

Noether young researcher presentation at 2005 JSM-Minneapolis (pdf file)

 

K.U.Leuven - Leuven Statistics Research Center