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]
Christophe Ley | |
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| Occupation(s) | Academic and Author |
| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Sub-discipline | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Luxembourg |
| Main interests | Flexible modeling, Directional Statistics, Stein's Method, Sports analytics, AI for medicine |
| Notable works | Modern Directional Statistics
Stein’s Method for comparison of univariate distributions Machine Learning and Conventional Statistics - Making Sense of the Differences A hybrid random forest to predict soccer matches in international tournaments Detecting outliers : Do not use standard deviation around the mean, use absolute deviation around the median |
Education and career
editLey 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
editLey 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
edit- ^ Jacuszin, Hélène (2023-01-17). "SciLux podcast - Christophe Ley, associate professor in Applied Statistics". researchluxembourg. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ^ "Luxembourg Statistical Society". Federation of European National Statistical Societies. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- ^ Christophe Ley at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Christophe Ley, Ghent University". UCLouvain (in French). Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ^ a b "Luxembourg Statisticians Publish Book Combining Sports & Statistics". Chronicle.lu. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ^ Reviews of Modern Directional Statistics:
- Melissa A. Bingham, MR3752655
- Shuangzhe Liu, Statistical Papers, doi:10.1007/s00362-018-0982-4
- ^ Review of Applied Directional Statistics: Yen-Chi Chen, The American Statistician, doi:10.1080/00031305.2021.1949931