Wolfgang Hardle

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From left: Wolfgang Härdle, Werner Hildenbrand and Alois R. Kneip, in Bonn, 2002

Wolfgang Karl Härdle (born October 20, 1953 in Darmstadt ) is a German statistician and university professor at the economics faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin . He also founded the company MD * Tech, which developed and sold the XploRe statistics software .

Life

Härdle was born the son of a glazier and a postal worker and grew up in Gaggenau , where he graduated from the Goethe-Gymnasium in 1972. According to his own family tree research, he is a distant descendant of the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauß .

After studying mathematics at the University of Karlsruhe , he has devoted himself to statistical research and teaching since his mathematician diploma in 1978. He is a specialist in semi-parametric and non-parametric estimation methods . In 1982 he received his Ph.D. from Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg to the Dr. rer. nat. In 1988 he completed his habilitation in statistics and econometrics in Bonn . In 1989 he went to the Université catholique de Louvain as a visiting scholar and then as a full professor . Since 1992 he has held a chair at the Faculty of Economics at the HU Berlin. He is director of the international DFG graduate college IRTG 1792 “High Dimensional Non Stationary Time Series”, which has existed since 2013.

Härdle was already active in several special research areas of the German Research Foundation in leading roles. His list of publications shows several hundred books and articles, since 1989 mainly with co-authors.

His wife is a cartography engineer. He is the father of three children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Härdle , HU Berlin, Faculty of Economics; accessed on June 12, 2016.
  2. Director IRTG 1792. Retrieved on September 10, 2016 (English).
  3. ^ Norbert Häring : Employees from all over the world. The puller. In: Handelsblatt , July 20, 2005.