Heike Hofmann

Heike Hofmann
Born (1972-04-16) 16 April 1972
Augsburg, West Germany
Nationality German
Alma mater University of Augsburg (Germany)
Known for interactive data visualization, MANET, ggobi
Awards Fellow of the American Statistical Association
Scientific career
Fields Statistics
Institutions Iowa State University
Doctoral advisor Antony Unwin
Doctoral students Hadley Wickham, Yihui Xie

Heike Hofmann (born 16 April 1972) is a statistician. She earned an 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 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.

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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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