Edgar Brunner

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Edgar Brunner (born July 13, 1943 in Roetgen / Eifel ) is a German statistician. From 1976 to 2009 he was a university professor and director of the medical statistics department at the Center for Computer Science, Statistics and Epidemiology at the University Medical Center Göttingen .

Life

Edgar Brunner attended the Einhard-Gymnasium in Aachen, where he passed the Abitur in 1963. He then completed a degree in mathematics at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen , graduating in 1969 with a diploma. At the same university he received his doctorate in mathematics in 1971. This was followed by his habilitation in medical statistics in 1973.

From 1976 to 2009 Brunner was university professor and director of the medical statistics department of the Center for Computer Science, Statistics and Epidemiology at the University Medical Center Göttingen. Since 1992 he has also had the right to examinations and doctorates in the mathematics department of the Georg-August University in Göttingen in the subjects of applied statistics and biometrics .

Edgar Brunner has been married to the German judoka Adelheid Brunner , née Grimm , since 1985 and has three daughters. Brunner is a judoka himself and was honored with the 6th Dan in 1998. He was an international referee for the IJF.

Fonts (selection)

  • Biomathematics (co-author), Heidelberg 1975.
  • Notes and formulas for the biomathematics lecture for physicians. Goettingen 1989.
  • Research Developments in Probability and Statistics (co-author). Leiden / Boston 1996.
  • Nonparametric hypotheses and rank statistics for unbalanced factorial design (co-author). In: Journal of the American Statistical Association. Vol. 92, H. 437 (March 1997), pp. 258-265.
  • A unified approach to rank tests in mixed models (co-author). In: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. Vol. 61 (1997), H. 2, pp. 249-277.
  • Edgar Brunner, Frank Langer: Non-parametric analysis of longitudinal data . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-24915-0 .
  • Nonparametric Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Factorial Experiments (co-author). Hoboken / New Jersey 2002.
  • The multivariate nonparametric Behrens-Fisher problem (co-author). In: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. Vol. 108 (2002), H. 1-2, pp. 37-53.
Editorships
  • Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (co-editor since 2000).
  • Biometrical Journal (2004–2008 sole editor, co-editor since 2009).

Awards

Edgar Brunner has been an honorary member of the German Region of the International Biometric Society since 2011.

literature

  • Who is who? The German Who's Who. XLVIII 2011/12, Lübeck 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adelheid Brunner (née Grimm) from Mitterfels has been successful in judo for 40 years. In: Straubinger Tagblatt. July 29, 2010. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ http://www.biometrische-gesellschaft.de/die-gesellschaft/trägerschaft/ehrenverbindungen.html
personal data
SURNAME Brunner, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German statistician
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Roetgen / Eifel