Friedhelm Eicker

Friedhelm Eicker (5 April 1927 – 19 March 2022) was a German statistician and former professor at the University of Dortmund. He is known for his contributions in the development of heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors.^[1]

Friedhelm Eicker
Born	(1927-04-05)5 April 1927 Radevormwald, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Died	19 March 2022(2022-03-19) (aged 94)
Alma mater	University of Mainz
Known for	Heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	University of Dortmund
Thesis	Statistische Theorie der Phasenumwandlung von Paraffinkristallen: Unter Berücksichtigung der Molekülverdrillung bei mittlerer Kettenlänge  (1956)
Doctoral students	Thomas Royen
Website	www.statistik.tu-dortmund.de/eicker.html

A native of Radevormwald, Eicker earned his PhD from the University of Mainz in 1956.^[2]