Yoav Benjamini ( he, יואב בנימיני; born January 5, 1949) is an Israeli statistician best known for development (with Yosef Hochberg) of the “

false discovery rate In statistics, the false discovery rate (FDR) is a method of conceptualizing the rate of type I errors in null hypothesis testing when conducting multiple comparisons. FDR-controlling procedures are designed to control the FDR, which is the expe ...

” criterion. He is currently The Nathan and Lily Silver Professor of Applied Statistics at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

Early life

Yoav graduated high school from the

Hebrew Reali School , motto_translation = ''Walk Humbly'' , address = Hertzel 16 , city = Haifa , zipcode = 3312103 , country = Israel , coordinates = , other_name ...

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

in 1966 and later studied mathematics and physics at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

graduating in

1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...

. His masters degree in Mathematics is from the same university in 1976. In 1981, he received his Ph.D. in Statistics from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

, USA.

Scientific fields of interest

Benjamini's scientific work combines theoretical research in statistical methodology with applied research that involves complex problems with massive data. The methodological work is on selective and simultaneous inference (

multiple comparisons In statistics, the multiple comparisons, multiplicity or multiple testing problem occurs when one considers a set of statistical inferences simultaneously or infers a subset of parameters selected based on the observed values. The more inferences ...

), as well as on general methods for data analysis, data mining, and data visualization. His research citations (from Google Scholar) exceeds 100,000.

Honors and awards

* 2012

Israel Prize The Israel Prize ( he, פרס ישראל; ''pras israél'') is an award bestowed by the State of Israel, and regarded as the state's highest cultural honor. History The Israel Prize is awarded annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state cer ...

Recipient in

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

* 2020 Elected to the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

(NAS), USA

Publications

* 1983: "Is the T-test really conservative when the parent distribution is long-tailed", ''Journal of the American Statistical Association'' * 1986: "Observational rainfall – runoff analysis for estimating effects of

cloud seeding Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds by dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation or ice nuclei, which alter the microphysical p ...

on water resources in Northern Israel", ''Journal of Hydrology'' (with Y. Harpaz) * 1988: "Opening the box of a boxplot", ''The American Statistician'' * 1990: "More powerful procedures for multiple significance testing", ''Statistics in Medicine'' (with Y. Hochberg) * 1995: "Controlling the False Discovery Rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing", ''Journal of the Royal Statistical Society'', Series B (with Y. Hochberg) * 1998: "Confidence intervals with more power to determine the sign: two ends constrain the means", ''Journal of the American Statistical Association'' (with Y. Hochberg & PB. Stark) * 2000: "The adaptive control of the false discovery rate in multiple comparison problems", ''The Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics'' (with Y. Hochberg) * 2001: The control of the False Discovery Rate in multiple testing under dependency, Annals of Statistics (with D. Yekutieli) * 2002: John Tukey’s contributions to multiple comparisons, Annals of Statistics, (with H. Braun) * 2003: Identifying Differentially Expressed Genes Using False Discovery Rate Controlling Procedures, Bioinformatics (with A. Reiner & D. Yekutieli) * 2005: Genotype-environment interactions in mouse behavior: A way out of the problem, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (with N. Kafkafi, A. Sakov & others) *2005: False discovery rate controlling confidence intervals for selected parameters, Journal of the American Statistical Association (with Y. Yekutieli * 2006: Adapting to unknown sparsity by controlling the false discovery rate, Annals of Statistics (with: F. Abramovich, D. Donoho & IM. Johnstone) * 2006: Adaptive linear step-up procedures that control the false discovery rate, Biometrika (with A.M. Krieger & D. Yekutieli) *2008: Screening for partial conjunction hypotheses. Biometrics (with R. Heller) *2011: Quantifying the buildup in extent and complexity of behavior – the case of free exploration in mice, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (with E. Fonio, T. Galili and others)

References

External links

Yoav Benjamini homepage
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Benjamini, Yoav 1949 births Living people Hebrew Reali School alumni Israeli statisticians Tel Aviv University faculty Place of birth missing (living people)