Edna Schechtman
Edna Schechtman | |
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עדנה שכטמן | |
| Born | July 9, 1948 Jerusalem, Israel |
| Died | May 22, 2022 (aged 73) |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Known for | Development of statistical tools that utilize the Gini Mean Difference (GMD) as the measure of association |
| Spouse | Gideon Schechtman |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied statistics, mainly in biology and medicine. Theoretical statistics: calibration, measures of association, Gini coefficient for inequality, stratification of populations. |
| Institutions | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| Doctoral advisor | Douglas Wolfe |
Edna Schechtman (Hebrew: עדנה שכטמן) was an Israeli statistician, a professor emeritus of statistics at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is best known for development (with Shlomo Yitzhaki) of statistical tools that utilize the Gini Mean Difference (GMD) (also known as the absolute mean difference and mean absolute difference) as the measure of association.