Edna Schechtman (Hebrew: עדנה שכטמן) was an Israeli statistician, a professor emeritus of statistics at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Schechtman completed her PhD in Statistics at Ohio State University in 1980, under the supervision of Douglas Wolfe, on the topic: “A Nonparametric Test for the Changepoint Problem”.
She served as the President of the Israel Statistical Association (2009-2011) and was the Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2012-2015).
In applied statistics, her research focuses mainly on biostatistics,[6][7][8][9][10][11] including studies on Parkinson disease,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18] and road safety.
This makes the GMD and the tools developed by Prof. Edna Schechtman and Prof. Shlomo Yitzhaki of critical importance in the complex research of statisticians, economists, econometricians, and policymakers.