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Robustness and Complex Data Structures
Claudia Becker
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Roland Fried
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Sonja Kuhnt
Editors
Robustness
and Complex Data
Structures
Festschrift in Honour of Ursula Gather
Editors
Claudia Becker
Faculty of Law, Economics, and Business
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Halle, Germany
Roland Fried
Faculty of Statistics
TU Dortmund University
Dortmund, Germany
Sonja Kuhnt
Faculty of Statistics
TU Dortmund University
Dortmund, Germany
ISBN 978-3-642-35493-9
ISBN 978-3-642-35494-6 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-35494-6
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Foreword
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Professor of Communication Sciences at the University
of Mainz and Founder of the Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach, once declared:
“For me, statistics is the information source of the responsible. (...) The
sentence: ‘with statistics it is possible to prove anything’ serves only the com-
fortable, those who have no inclination to examine things more closely.”
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Examining things closely, engaging in exact analysis of circumstances as the ba-
sis for determining a course of action are what Ursula Gather is known for, and what
she passes on to future generations of scholars. Be it as Professor of Mathematical
Statistics and Applications in Industry at the Technical University of Dortmund, in
her role, since 2008, as Rector of the TU Dortmund, or as a member of numer-
ous leading scientific committees and institutions, she has dedicated herself to the
service of academia in Germany and abroad.
In her career, Ursula Gather has combined scientific excellence with active par-
ticipation in university self-administration. In doing so, she has never settled for the
easy path, but has constantly searched for new insights and challenges. Her exper-
tise, which ranges from complex statistical theory to applied research in the area of
process planning in forming technology as well as online monitoring in intensive
care in the medical sciences, is widely respected. Her reputation reaches far beyond
Germany’s borders and her research has been awarded prizes around the world.
It has been both a great pleasure and professionally enriching for me to have
been fortunate enough to cooperate with her across the boundaries of our respective
scientific disciplines, and I know that in this I am not alone. The success of the inter-
nationally renowned DFG Collaborative Research Centre 475 “Reduction of Com-
plexity for Multivariate Data Structures” was due in large part to Ursula Gather’s
leadership over its entire running time of 12 years (1997–2009). She has also given
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“Statistik ist für mich das Informationsmittel der Mündigen. (...) Der Satz: ’Mit Statistik kann man
alles beweisen’ gilt nur für die Bequemen, die keine Lust haben, genau hinzusehen.” Quoted in:
Küchenhoff, Helmut (2006), ’Statistik für Kommunikationswissenschaftler’, 2nd revised edition,
Konstanz: UVK-Verlags-Gesellschaft, p.14.
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Foreword
her time and support to the DFG over many years: From 2004 until 2011, she was a
member of the Review Board Mathematics, taking on the role of chairperson from
2008 to 2011. During her years on the Review Board, she took part in more than
30 meetings, contributing to decision-making process that led to recommendations
on more than 1200 individual project proposals in the field of mathematics, totalling
applications for a combined sum of almost 200 million. Alongside individual project
proposals and applications to programmes supporting early-career researchers, as a
member of the Review Board she also played an exemplary role in the selection of
projects for the DFG’s coordinated research programmes.
Academic quality and excellence always underpin the work of Ursula Gather.
Above and beyond this, however, she possesses a clear sense of people as well as a
keen understanding of the fundamental questions at hand. The list of her achieve-
ments and organizational affiliations is long; too long to reproduce in its entirety
here. Nonetheless, her work as an academic manager should not go undocumented.
Since her appointment as Professor of Mathematical Statistics and Applications in
Industry in 1986, she has played a central role in the development of the Technical
University of Dortmund, not least as Dean of the Faculty of Statistics and later Pro-
Rector for Research. And, of course, as Rector of the University since 2008 she has
also had a very significant impact on its development. It is not least as a result of
her vision and leadership that the Technical University has come to shape the iden-
tity of Dortmund as a centre of academia and scientific research. The importance
of the Technical University for the city of Dortmund, for the region and for science
in Germany was also apparent during the General Assembly of the DFG in 2012,
during which we enjoyed the hospitality of the TU Dortmund. Ursula Gather can be
proud of what she has achieved. It will, however, be clear to everyone who knows
her and has had the pleasure of working with her that she is far from the end of her
achievements. I for one am happy to know that we can all look forward to many
further years of working with her.
Personalities like Ursula Gather drive science forward with enthusiasm, engage-
ment, inspiration and great personal dedication. Ursula, I would like, therefore, to
express my heartfelt thanks for your work, for your close cooperation in diverse
academic contexts and for your support personally over so many years. My thanks
go to you as a much respected colleague and trusted counsellor, but also as a friend.
Many congratulations and my best wishes on the occasion of your sixtieth birthday!
Bonn, Germany
November 2012
Matthias Kleiner
President of the German
Research Foundation

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