Yoav Benjamini
Yoav Benjamini | |
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יואב בנימיני | |
Yoav Benjamini | |
| Born | 5 January 1949 Israel |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Princeton University |
| Known for | False discovery rate Benjamini–Hochberg procedure Benjamini–Yekutieli procedure |
| Awards | Israel Prize (2012) Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics (2024) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Tel Aviv University |
| Thesis | Is the t-test conservative when the parent distribution is long tailed? (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Bloomfield |
| Doctoral students | Daniel Yekutieli Ruth Heller |
Yoav Benjamini (Hebrew: יואב בנימיני; born 5 January 1949) is an Israeli statistician best known for the development (with Yosef Hochberg) of the false discovery rate (FDR) criterion and the Benjamini–Hochberg (BH) and Benjamini–Yekutieli (BY) procedures for controlling the FDR rate. He is currently The Nathan and Lily Silver Professor of Applied Statistics at Tel Aviv University.
He won the Israel Prize in 2012 and the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics in 2024.