Paul Deheuvels

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Paul Deheuvels
Born11 March 1948 (1948-03-11) (age 75)
Istanbul, Turkey
Known for Probability, Statistics
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics, Statistics
Institutions Pierre and Marie Curie University, ISUP
Doctoral advisor Daniel Dugué
Doctoral students Adrian Raftery

Paul Deheuvels (born 11 March 1948 in Istanbul) is a French statistician. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

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Career

Paul Deheuvels is the son of René Deheuvels. [1]

Normalien (class of 1967), [2] agrégé de mathématiques (1969), doctor in mathematical sciences (1974), [3] he has been professor of statistics at the Pierre-et-Marie Curie University (now Sorbonne University) since 1974. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences (Mechanical and Computer Sciences section) in November 2000 (he had been a correspondent since March 1994). [4]

From 1978 to 1981, he was Director of the Institute of Statistics at the University of Paris, and from 1981 to 2013 of the Laboratory of Theoretical and Applied Statistics. [5]

Paul Deheuvels is a specialist in mathematical statistics. He is a foreign member of the Real Academia de Ciencias de España, a member of the International Statistical Institute, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. [6] His work has focused mainly on non-parametric functional estimation and extreme value theory.

He was an advisor to Total's management from 1974 to 1994. He was an advisor to Sanofi's management from 1978 to 1998. He was a professor at Columbia University (New York) for two semesters in 1989 and 1999. He is the author of more than 160 scientific articles. [7]

Contributions

Deheuvels made significant contributions to various areas of probability and statistics. His achievements include:

Media

Since October 2014, P. Deheuvels has been in charge of the Libre-Journal des Sciences et des Techniques on Radio-Courtoisie, a 3-hour programme every four weeks.

Controversies

Repeatedly from October 2012 (date of publication of a highly publicized article by Gilles-Eric Séralini on GMOs), [9] Paul Deheuvels, the only statistician within the academy, was the only academician to publicly support Séralini's statistical approach, [10] despite being overruled by a communiqué from six academies – science, medicine, technology, pharmacy, agriculture{etc. } - and by the High Council for Biotechnology.

In 2012, G.-E. Seralini received the support of 190 international scientists from 33 countries. G.-E. Seralini's article was republished, in a more complete form, in 2014, in the journal Environmental Science Europe (part of the Springer Group), after new expert opinions that did not call into question either its content or its conclusions. After the disclosure of the "Monsanto Papers", [11] the Seralini case [12] [ circular reference ] was examined by CRIGEN, [13] which showed that the action taken against G.-E. Seralini had been organized underhand by industrial lobbies, without any objective scientific reference. These elements largely proved Paul Deheuvels right a posteriori.

He also expressed his opposition to the theory of the anthropogenic origin of global warming – in particular by supporting the Club de l'horloge's award of the Lysenko Prize 2010 to Jean Jouzel. [14] [15] [16] Rather, it agrees with the arguments of academician Vincent Courtillot to establish that human activity only has a marginal influence on climate change.

Prizes

Pierre-Simon-de-Laplace Prize 2007.

Books

Related Research Articles

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to statistics:

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References

  1. ↑ "Paul Deheuvels – Who's Who".
  2. ↑ "L'Annuaire | a-Ulm". Archived from the original on 2015-05-20. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  3. ↑ http://www.sudoc.fr/042065844. [ dead link ]
  4. ↑ "Académie des sciences".
  5. ↑ "LPSM – Histoire".
  6. ↑ http://www.lsta.upmc.fr/DEHEUVELS/CV-DEHEUVELS_2010.pdf Archived 2019-10-29 at the Wayback Machine [ bare URL PDF ]
  7. ↑ "Paul Deheuvels on Google Scholar".
  8. ↑ Hall, Peter (1981). "Laws of the iterated logarithm for nonparametric density estimators". Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Verwandte Gebiete. 56: 47–61. doi: 10.1007/BF00531973 . S2CID   123463091.
  9. ↑ Seralini E, « Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize », Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2014
  10. ↑ Cf. Paul Deheuvels, « Étude de Séralini sur les OGM : pourquoi sa méthodologie est statistiquement bonne », Le Nouvel Obs, 9 octobre 2012 (lire en ligne)
  11. ↑ Le Monde | 4 October 2017 à 06h41 • Mis à jour le 4 October 2017 à 10h09 | Par Stéphane Foucart et Stéphane Horel: “Monsanto papers” désinformation organisée autour du Glyphosate)
  12. ↑ fr:Affaire Séralini
  13. ↑ "CRIGEN". Archived from the original on 2019-02-19. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  14. ↑ "Pourquoi le Club de l'Horloge attribue-t-il le prix Lyssenko à deux " réchauffistes " ?". Polémia.
  15. ↑ Cf. Sylvestre Huet (29 September 2010). "Climat : le débat Deheuvels versus Huet". Libération. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  16. ↑ OGM : l'étude polémique du professeur Séralini désavouée, Stéphane Foucart, Le Monde, 29 novembre 2013.
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