Karl Gustav Jöreskog

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Karl Gustav Jöreskog (born April 25, 1935 in Åmål ) is a Swedish statistician. He was professor of mathematical statistics at Uppsala University , retired in 2000 , and made important contributions to the methods of quantitative social research , especially factor analysis . He is also a professor at the Norwegian Business School in Bergen and at the Norwegian Management School in Oslo .

Jöreskog was a student and research assistant to Herman Wold from 1957 to 1963 and later developed many of his approaches further. From 1964 to 1971 he researched and taught at Princeton University before returning to Sweden to work at Uppsala University for 29 years. He is considered to be one of the fathers of structural equation models and other multivariate methods .

With his colleague Dag Sörbom he developed the LISREL model and the statistical software of the same name .

As a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , he gave the award speech for the Nobel Prize in Economics to James Heckman and Daniel McFadden in 2000 .

On July 19, 2004 Jöreskog received an honorary doctorate from the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

literature

  • Jöreskog KG, Sörbom, D. (1984). Advances in Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Models. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 0-8191-4137-2
  • Joreskog, K. and F. Yang (1996). Non-linear structural equation models: The Kenny-Judd model with interaction effects. In G. Marcoulides and R. Schumacker, (eds.), Advanced structural equation modeling: Concepts, issues, and applications . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Reyment & Jöreskog (1993). Applied Factor Analysis in the Natural Science. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-57556-7
  • Jöreskog KG, Sörbom, D. (1988). PRELIS 1 user's manual, version 1. Chicago: Scientific Software, Inc.

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personal data
SURNAME Jöreskog, Karl Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish statistician
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Åmål