Eckart Sonnemann

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Eckart Sonnemann (born March 7, 1940 in Helmstedt ; † March 19, 2007 ) was a German mathematician.

After graduating from high school, he began studying mathematics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , which lasted from 1961 to 1967. There he was then employed as a research assistant at the Institute for Mathematical Statistics until 1971. With the supervision of Hermann Witting , he obtained his doctorate there in 1970 .

In 1971 he moved to the Institute for Information, Documentation and Statistics at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg , where he worked for Herbert Immich as a research assistant until 1973. He went to the University of Hamburg in 1973 to work at the Institute for Mathematical Statistics.

In 1977 he was appointed to the University of Dortmund , where he was professor in charge of the statistics department. From 1982 until his retirement on October 1, 2001, he was Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Trier for the Chair of Statistics. The focus of his work was in the areas of multivariate linear models , multiple decision processes and experimental design .

In the field of statistics in particular, he developed methods for optimal test planning and multiple tests, with biometric applications in the foreground. He belonged to the Stochastics department of the German Mathematicians Association (DMV).

From 1984 to 1986 he was chairman of the Biometric Society in the German region.

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  • Statistics. An elementary introduction. Advanced training course for mathematics teachers , Dortmund 1979
  • U-Optimum row-columns designs for the comparison of two treatments , in: Metrika, Volume 32, Number 1 / December 1985

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SURNAME Sonnemann, Eckart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmstedt
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 2007