Christian Martin Hennig (born 1966) is a German statistician. His work focuses on robust

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Education and career

Hennig completed his doctorate in 1997 at the University of Hamburg, Germany, under the supervision of Konrad Behnen. From October 2001 until September 2003 he was University Lecturer (fixed term postdoctoral position) at the Seminar for Statistics, ETH Zürich. Hennig was a lecturer at the Department of Statistical Science,

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(UCL) from 2005 on, and became Senior Lecturer in 2010. Since 2019 he is full Professor at the ''Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati"'' at the

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. As of 2023 ,Hennig serves as the

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of the journal '' Statistica''.

Selected works

Hennig has published - partly with co-authors - about 130 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedingsChristian Hennig in Research Gate
Retrieved 2023-10-30 as well as - together with M. Meila, F. Murtagh, and R. Rocci - a Handbook of Cluster Analysis: *Hennig, C., M. Meila, F. Murtagh, and R. Rocci (eds.) (2015). Handbook of Cluster Analysis. Chapman and Hall/CRC, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-429-18547-2. https://doi.org/10.1201/b19706 *Hennig, C. (2008). Dissolution point and isolation robustness: Robustness criteria for general cluster analysis methods. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 99, 1154–1176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2007.07.002 *Hausdorf, B. and C. Hennig (2010). Species delimitation using dominant and codominant multilocus markers. Systematic Biology 59, 491–503. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syq039 *Hennig, C. Mathematical Models and Reality: A Constructivist Perspective. Found Sci 15, 29–48 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-009-9167-x

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hennig, Christian 1966 births Living people University of Hamburg alumni German statisticians Academics of University College London Academic staff of the University of Bologna Mathematical statisticians