Daniel Yekutieli

Daniel Yekutieli
דניאל יקותיאלי
Born
Rehovot, Israel
Known forFalse coverage rate
Benjamini–Yekutieli procedure
RelativesYosef Yekutieli (grandfather)
Akiva Aryeh Weiss (great-grandfather)
AwardsRousseeuw Prize for Statistics (2024)
Academic background
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem (BA)
Tel Aviv University (MA, PhD)
ThesisTheoretical Results Needed for Applying the False Discovery Rate in Statistical Problems
Doctoral advisorYoav Benjamini
Academic work
InstitutionsTel Aviv University

Daniel Yekutieli is an Israeli statistician and professor at Tel Aviv University. He is one of the leading researchers in the field of applied statistics in Israel. He is known for the creation of the false coverage rate and for his work on the false discovery rate with Yoav Benjamini, including the Benjamini–Yekutieli (BY) procedure for controlling it.