Heike Hofmann

Heike Hofmann
Born (1972-04-16)April 16, 1972
Augsburg, Germany
Nationality German
Fields Statistics
Institutions Iowa State University
Alma mater University of Augsburg (Germany)
Doctoral advisor Antony Unwin
Doctoral students Hadley Wickham, Yihui Xie, Susan Vanderplas, Karsten Maurer, Niladri Roy Chowdhury, Mahbubul Majumder, Adam Loy, Marie Vendettuoilli
Known for interactive data visualization, MANET, ggobi
Notable awards Fellow of the American Statistical Association

Heike Hofmann (born 1973) is a statistician. She earned a MSc in Mathematics, with a minor in Computer Science, and a PhD in Statistics, from the University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany in 1998 and 2000, respectively. She is currently Professor in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University,[1] and faculty member of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Human Computer Interaction programs.

In her research on interactive data visualization she has provided new approaches for plotting multivariate categorical data using mosaic plots, and making interactions with these plots, and linking between plots. She was the primary development of the software MANET and contributed to the development of the software GGobi. More recent software include and the R packages x3prplus, geomnet, nullabor, gglogo, peptider, discreteRV, ggboxplots, ggparallel, dbData, HLMdiag, lvboxplots, MergeGUI, MissingDataGUI. Her work on examining the inflow of corporate cash into the 2012 US Presidential election can be read in Chance magazine.[2]

Heike Hofmann is the author of more than 50 journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters and edited one book. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She has supervised 8 doctoral theses, including Hadley Wickham and Yihui Xie.

Honors & Awards

References

  1. "Department of Statistics web site". Iowa State University. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  2. "Can You Buy a President? Politics After the Tillman Act". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  3. https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx
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