Nico Nagelkerke

Nicolaas Jan Dirk "Nico" Nagelkerke (born 1951) is a retired Dutch biostatistician and epidemiologist. He was a professor of biostatistics at the United Arab Emirates University and previously taught at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.^[2][3]

Nico Nagelkerke
Born	Nicolaas Jan Dirk Nagelkerke 1951 (age 73–74)[1] The Hague, Netherlands[1]
Nationality	Dutch
Education	University of Leiden University of Amsterdam
Scientific career
Fields	Biostatistics Epidemiology
Institutions	University of Leiden United Arab Emirates University

In 1991, he defined the Nagelkerke R-squared, an equation adjusting the Cox and Snell R-squared value to be comparable to the traditional coefficient of determination.