Yoav Benjamini | |
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 Yoav Benjamini | |
| Born | 5 January 1949 Israel |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Known for | False discovery rate |
| Awards | Israel Prize (2021) 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 |
Yoav Benjamini (Hebrew: יואב בנימיני; born 5 January 1949) is an Israeli statistician best known for development (with Yosef Hochberg) of the "false discovery rate" criterion. He is currently The Nathan and Lily Silver Professor of Applied Statistics at Tel Aviv University.