Gerda Claeskens

Gerda Claeskens
CitizenshipBelgian
EducationUniversity of Antwerp 1995 (licentiate in mathematics),

Limburgs Universitair Centrum 1999 (master's degree in biostatistics), Limburgs Universitair Centrum (Ph.D. in mathematics),

Australian National University postdoctoral research
OccupationStatistician
Employer(s)KU Leuven,

Eindhoven University of Technology,

Texas A&M University
Known fordeveloping focused information criterion for model selection
Notable workExpert in nonparametric statistics and model selection
AwardsNoether Young Scholar Award of the American Statistical Association

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).