Andriëtte Bekker (born 1958)[1] is a South African mathematical statistician. She is a professor at the University of Pretoria, and head of the statistics department at the university.[2]
Education
editBekker earned her Ph.D. in 1990 at the University of South Africa. Her dissertation, Veralgemening, samestelling en karakterisering as metodes om parameterryke verdelings te vind [Generalising, compounding, and characterising as methods to obtain parameter-rich distributions], was supervised by J. J. J. Roux.[3]
Recognition
editBekker is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.[4]
References
edit- ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-08-22
- ^ Prof Andriëtte Bekker, University of Pretoria Statistics, retrieved 2020-08-22
- ^ Gerdes, Paulus (2007), African Doctorates in Mathematics: A Catalogue, African Mathematical Union Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa, p. 274, ISBN 9781430318675
- ^ ISI Elected Members, International Statistical Institute, archived from the original on 2020-03-25, retrieved 2020-08-22
External links
edit- Andriëtte Bekker publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Andriëtte Bekker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project