| Birth date | 5 April 1927 |
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| Birth place | Radevormwald, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| Death date | 19 March 2022 (aged 94) |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Workplaces | University of Dortmund |
| Alma mater | University of Mainz |
| Doctoral students | Thomas Royen |
| Known for | Heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors |
| Thesis year | 1956 |
| Website | www.statistik.tu-dortmund.de/eicker.html |
Friedhelm Eicker (5 April 1927 – 19 March 2022) was a German statistician and former professor at the University of Dortmund. He is known for his contributions in the development of heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors.[1]
A native of Radevormwald, Eicker earned his PhD from the University of Mainz in 1956.[2]
References
- ^ Eicker, Friedhelm (1967). "Limit Theorems for Regression with Unequal and Dependent Errors". Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability. Vol. 5, no. 1. University of California Press. pp. 59–82. MR 0214223. Zbl 0217.51201.
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