Gerda Claeskens            Professor of Statistics

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Address: OR & Business Statistics                                                                                K.U. Leuven Naamsestraat 69     3000 Leuven, Belgium     Phone: +32-(0)16/32.6993     Fax:     +32-(0)16/32.6732 gerda.claeskens at econ dot kuleuven.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) PhD Students: * Eugen Pircalabelu (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:     * Journal of the American Statistical Association * Biometrika * Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 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)

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