Christophe Ley is a Luxembourgish statistician,[1] and an author and editor of books on directional statistics and sports statistics. He is president of the Luxembourg Statistical Society.[2]

Education and career

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Ley obtained his PhD from the Université Libre de Bruxelles under the supervision of Davy Paindaveine.[3]

After his PhD, Christophe Ley was chargé de recherche of the National Fund for Scientific Research at the Université Libre de Brussels until 2015, when he became assistant professor at Ghent University.[4] He joined the University of Luxembourg in 2021 as associate professor.[5]

Selected publications

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Ley is the co-author, with Thomas Verdebout, of the book Modern Directional Statistics (CRC Press, 2017)[6] and the co-editor with Verdebout of Applied Directional Statistics: Modern Methods and Case Studies (CRC Press, 2018).[7]

He is also the co-editor, with Yves Dominicy, of Statistics Meets Sports: What We Can Learn from Sports Data (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023).[5]

References

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  1. ^ Jacuszin, Hélène (2023-01-17). "SciLux podcast - Christophe Ley, associate professor in Applied Statistics". researchluxembourg. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  2. ^ "Luxembourg Statistical Society". Federation of European National Statistical Societies. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
  3. ^ Christophe Ley at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Christophe Ley, Ghent University". UCLouvain (in French). Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  5. ^ a b "Luxembourg Statisticians Publish Book Combining Sports & Statistics". Chronicle.lu. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  6. ^ Reviews of Modern Directional Statistics:
  7. ^ Review of Applied Directional Statistics: Yen-Chi Chen, The American Statistician, doi:10.1080/00031305.2021.1949931