Henri Theil
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| Birth | October 13, 1924 |
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| Death | August 20, 2000 (aged 75) |
| Nationality |  Netherlands |
| Field | Econometrics |
Henri Theil (October 13, 1924, in Amsterdam – August 20, 2000[1]) was a Dutch econometrician.
He graduated from the University of Amsterdam. He was the successor of Jan Tinbergen at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Later he taught in Chicago and at the University of Florida. He is most famous for the Theil index, a measure of entropy, which belongs to the class of Kolm-Indices and is used as an inequity indicator in econometrics[2]. He is also responsible for the Theil-Sen robust regression method.
[edit] Sources
- ^ Kloek, Teun (2001). "Obituary: Henri Theil, 1924–2000". Statistica Neerlandica 55 (3): 263–269. doi:.
- ^ Cowell, Frank A. (2002, 2003): Theil, Inequality and the Structure of Income Distribution, London School of Economics and Political Sciences
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