Daniel Yekutieli
{{Short description|Israeli statistician}}
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| known_for = False coverage rate
Benjamini–Yekutieli procedure
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Akiva Aryeh Weiss (great-grandfather)
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Tel Aviv University (MA, PhD)
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Daniel Yekutieli is an Israeli statistician and professor at Tel Aviv University. He is one of the leading researchers in the field of applied statistics in Israel. He is known for the creation of the false coverage rate and for his work on the false discovery rate with Yoav Benjamini, including the Benjamini–Yekutieli (BY) procedure for controlling it.{{cite journal | vauthors = Benjamini Y, Yekutieli D | year = 2001 | title = The control of the false discovery rate in multiple testing under dependency | journal = Annals of Statistics | volume = 29 | issue = 4 | pages = 1165–1188 | mr = 1869245 | doi = 10.1214/aos/1013699998 | doi-access = free }}
Biography
Yekutieli was born in Rehovot, Israel. His father, Gideon Yekutieli, was the first nuclear physicist in Israel and a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His paternal grandfather was the founder of the Maccabiah Games, Yosef Yekutieli. His great-grandfather was Akiva Aryeh Weiss, one of the founders of Ahuzat Bayit (modern-day Tel Aviv).
Yekutieli received his BA in Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1992, and went on to earn his MA and PhD in Applied Statistics from Tel Aviv University. His PhD thesis, supervised by Yoav Benjamini and completed in 2002, first introduced the concept of the false coverage rate.
Honors and awards
Together with Yoav Benjamini and Ruth Heller, he won the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics in 2024 "for the pioneering work on the false discovery rate and methods to control it".{{Cite web |title=The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics |url=https://www.rousseeuwprize.org/news/winners-2024 |access-date=2024-08-01 |website=www.rousseeuwprize.org}}{{cite news |last1=Fiske |first1=Gavriel |title=Tel Aviv University team wins international $1 million statistics prize |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-university-team-wins-international-1-million-statistics-prize/ |access-date=21 February 2025 |work=www.timesofisrael.com |agency=The Times of Israel}}
He was elected fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2020.{{cite web |title=ברכות לפרופ' דני יקותיאלי על בחירתו כעמית של ה- IMS |url=https://geography.tau.ac.il/math/prof.yekutiel |website=geography.tau.ac.il |access-date=21 February 2025 |language=he}}
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