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Piet Groeneboom
Petrus (Piet) Groeneboom (born 24 September 1941 in Scheveningen) is a Dutch statistician who made major advances in the field of shape-constrained statistical inference such as isotonic regression, and also worked in probability theory. Education and career At the beginning of his tertiary studies in 1959, Groeneboom enrolled in medicine at the University of Amsterdam but quickly switched to psychology at the same university, obtaining a candidate degree in 1963. During his studies he attended a course on logic by analytic philosopher Else M. Barth, whose influence, along with that by Lambert Meertens after his (Groeneboom's) candidate degree, he later stated as having made him decide to study mathematics. He was an assistant of Johannes de Groot. He obtained a master's degree in mathematics in 1971, also at the University of Amsterdam, and studied at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 1975 under Kobus Oosterhoff, obtaining his Ph.D. degree in 1979. Before and immediately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piet Groeneboom, 2016
Piet may refer to: People *Piet (given name), a common name in the Netherlands and South Africa *Henri Piet (1888–1915), French lightweight boxer *Tony Piet (1906–1981), American Major League Baseball player Schools *Purushottam Institute of Engineering and Technology, Rourkela, Orissa, India *Priydarshini Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India *Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan Other uses *Piet (programming language) *Piet (horse), American thoroughbred racehorse {{disambig, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |