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Heike Hofmann

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Nationality
  
German

Institutions
  
Field
  
Statistics

Institution
  
Fields
  
Statistics

Doctoral advisor
  
Antony Unwin

Notable students
  
Born
  
April 16, 1972Augsburg, Germany (
1972-04-16
)

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

Alma mater
  
Books
  
Graphics of Large Datasets: Visualizing a Million

People also search for
  
Hadley Wickham, Antony Unwin

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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, and faculty member of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Human Computer Interaction programs.

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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 [1] 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.

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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Honors & Awards

  • Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2014)
  • References

    Heike Hofmann Wikipedia


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