Paul Deheuvels
Paul Deheuvels is a French statistician and a specialist in probability.
From 1974 to 2013, Paul Deheuvels was a professor of mathematics at the University of Pierre-et-Marie Curie University in Paris prior to retirement. He taught probability and statistics.
Deheuvels was elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1985, and Member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2000. He is also a member of the International Statistical Institute, and a foreign corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain.
Education
Deheuvels completed his secondary education at Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, France at age 17. After preparatory classes in mathematics at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he was admitted in 1967, at the age of 19, to the École Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm.Research
Paul Deheuvels’ work was in the fields of extreme value theory, empirical processes, nonparametric estimation of tails and tail indices, extreme dependence and extreme copula (statistics).Séralini affair
The Séralini affair was the controversy surrounding the publication, retraction, and republication of a journal article by French molecular biologist Gilles-Éric Séralini. The study was criticized by various regulatory authorities and scientists prior to retraction. With few exceptions, the scientific community dismissed the study and called for a more rigorous peer-review system in scientific journals. Deheuvels was one scientist who supported the study.Books
- L’Intégrale, Presses Universitaires de France, 1980.
- La recherche scientifique, Que sais-je?, 1990.
- Lectures on Empirical Processes: Theory and Statistical Applications, EMS Series of Lectures in Mathematics, 2007.
- Probabilité, Hasard et Incertitude, PUF, 2008.