Overview
Paul H. C. Eilers is a Dutch statistician (later Erasmus University Medical Center; at the time of the P-splines paper, DCMR Milieudienst Rijnmond), known for penalized-spline smoothing and its applications in chemometrics, epidemiology and signal processing.
Key Contributions / Features
- P-splines (Eilers-Marx 1996): with Marx, B-spline regression with a difference penalty on adjacent coefficients — the standard general-purpose penalized smoother.
- Extensions of penalized smoothing to two-dimensional and array data, baseline correction, and life-table / demographic smoothing.
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