ANGELIKA VAN DE LINDE, STATISTICIAN, CO-DEVELOPER OF THE DEVIANCE INFORMATION CRITERION, DIC

 

     Angelika van der Linde was my much valued colleague at the University of Edinburgh during the late 1990s before moving on to a professorial position at the University of Bremen. She is a fine mathematical statistician, perhaps best known for her development  with Spiegelhalter, Best, and Carlin of the Deviance Information Criterion DIC. This widely applied method for choosing between statistical models was developed as a sophisticated approximation to AIC, as developed by my friend Hirotugu Akaike, who spent a year visiting the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1981-82). 

                                                       

                                            My friends Hirotugu and Mituko Akaike
                        
                                 

                                                ANGELIKA'S RESEARCH WORKS

         Angelika has also made pivotal contributions to the theory and application of splines. We still correspond every Christmas,. My best wishes to Angelika and her husband during the pandemic.