Eva Cantoni
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Eva Cantoni (born 1970) is a Swiss statistician whose research focuses on robust statistics and generalized linear models, with applications including housing market prediction, health care, and livestock production. She is a professor at the University of Geneva, in the Geneva School of Economics and Management,{{r|gsem}} and president of the Swiss Federal Statistics Committee.{{r|3q}}
Education and career
Cantoni was born in 1970, and received a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1999 from the University of Geneva.{{r|es}} Her doctoral dissertation, Resistant Techniques for Nonparametric Regression, Generalized Linear and Additive Models, was supervised by Elvezio Ronchetti.{{r|mg}}
She became an associate professor at the University of Geneva in 2011, and full professor in 2019. She was vice-dean of the faculty of economy and management from 2020 to 2023,{{r|es}} and became president of the Swiss Federal Statistics Committee in 2024.{{r|3q}}
Book
Cantoni is a coauthor of the book Robust Methods in Biostatistics (with Stephane Heritier, Samuel Copt, and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser, Wiley, 2009).{{r|rmb}}
Recognition
In 2025, the Geneva School of Economics and Management gave Cantoni their inaugural GSEM Teaching Engagement Award.{{r|teach}}
References
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Reviews of Robust Methods in Biostatistics:
- {{citation|last=Moore|first=Dirk F.|date=March 2010|doi=10.1080/10543400903572852|issue=2|journal=Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics|pages=482–484|title=none|volume=20|s2cid=124565528}}
- {{citation|last=Müller|first=Christine|date=November 2010|doi=10.1002/bimj.201000194|issue=1|journal=Biometrical Journal|pages=159–160|title=none|volume=53}}
- {{citation|last1=Staudte|first1=Robert|last2=Prendergast|first2=Luke|date=December 2011|doi=10.1111/j.1467-842x.2011.00630.x|issue=4|journal=Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics|pages=483–486|title=none|volume=53}}
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External links
- [https://sites.google.com/view/eva-cantoni Home page]
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Category:Swiss women scientists