Jan de Leeuw

Jan de Leeuw (born December 19, 1945) is a Dutch statistician, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Founding Chair of the Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles. He is known as the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Statistical Software, as well as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Multivariate Analysis.

Born in Voorburg, De Leeuw attended the HBS-B in Voorburg from 1953 to 1963. He studied at the Leiden University, where he received his Propedeutic Examination Psychology Summa Cum Laude in 1964; his Candidate Examination Psychology Summa Cum Laude in 1967; and his Doctoral Examination Psychology Summa Cum Laude in 1973. He received his PhD cum laude with a thesis entitled "Canonical Analysis of Categorical Data" advised by John P. van de Geer.

De Leeuw started his academic career as Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Theory in Leiden University in 1969. He was member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ in the year 1973-74. Back in The Netherlands he was Professor of Data Theory, Leiden University, from 1977 to 1987. In 1987 he moved to University of California, Los Angeles, where he became Professor of Psychology and Mathematics, and Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Social Statistics until 1994. From 1993 to 1996 he was also Acting Director of the Interdivisional Program in Statistics. From 1998 to 2014 he was Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics at University of California, Los Angeles. He retired in July 2014.

De Leeuw started as Associate Editor for Psychometrika (1982–1991); was Advisory Editor at Computational Statistics Quarterly (1983–1990); Associate Editor for the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (1989–1991); Editor for the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (1991–1997); Editor for the Journal of Multivariate Analysis (1993–1997); and Web Editor for Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1996–1999). He is still member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Classification (since 1984); Member of the Advisory Board of the Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis (since 1985); Editor for Advanced Quantitative Techniques in the Social Sciences (since 1989); Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Statistical Software (1997-2015); Editor for the Sage/SRM-Database of Social Research Methodology (since 1996); and Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Multivariate Analysis (1997-2015).

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