Christiaan Heij (born 1950s) is a Dutch mathematician, Assistant Professor in statistics and econometrics at the Econometric Institute at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, known for his work in the field of mathematical systems theory,[1] and econometrics.[2]

Life and work

Heij did his PhD research at the University of Groningen in the 1980s among other young system theorists, such as Hans Nieuwenhuis, Pieter Otter, Jan Camiel Willems, and Dirk T. Tempelaar.[3] In 1988 he graduated under Willems, Professor of Systems and Control and Nieuwenhuis with the thesis "Deterministic Identification of Dynamical Systems,"[4] which was published the next year by Springer in the "Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences" series.

In the 1990s Heij continued his research at the Econometric Institute of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and wrote a series of books on systems theory, modelling, dynamics systems, and econometrics. With Jan Camiel Willems he supervised the promotion of Berend Roorda, who graduated in 1995 with the thesis, entitled "Deterministic Identification of Dynamical Systems."[4]

Heij is credited extending "The behavioral approach to system theory put forward by Willems,"[5] and for presenting a new total least squares algorithms, specifically for system identification.[6] His most cited work is the 2004 textbook "Econometric methods with applications in business and economics," co-authored with Philip Hans Franses, Teun Kloek, and Herman K. van Dijk, and published by the Oxford University Press.

In his later career he is well known for being the gatekeeper of the study Econometrics & Operational Research in Rotterdam, with an average passing percentage of 30% on the first course given to new students.

Selected publications

  • Heij C., Deterministic Identification of Dynamical Systems, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol. 127. PhD Thesis University of Groningen, New York: Springer, 1989.
  • Heij, C., Schumacher, J. M., Hanzon, B., & Praagman, C. System dynamics in economic and financial models. (1997).
  • Heij, C., De Boer, P., Franses, P. H., Kloek, T., & Van Dijk, H. K. (2004). Econometric methods with applications in business and economics. Oxford University Press.
  • Christiaan Heij, André C.M. Ran and F. van Schagen. Introduction to Mathematical Systems Theory: Linear Systems, Identification and Control. 2006

Articles, a selection:

  • Heij, Christiaan. "Exact modelling and identifiability of linear systems." Automatica 28.2 (1992): 325–344.
  • Roorda, Berend, and Christiaan Heij. "Global total least squares modeling of multivariable time series." Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on 40.1 (1995): 50–63.
  • Heij, Christiaan, and Wolfgang Scherrer. "System identification by dynamic factor models." SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 35.6 (1997): 1924–1951.
  • Heij, Christiaan, Patrick JF Groenen, and Dick van Dijk. "Forecast comparison of principal component regression and principal covariate regression." Computational statistics & data analysis 51.7 (2007): 3612–3625.

References

  1. ↑ Antoulas, A. C. "A new approach to modeling for control." Linear algebra and its applications 203 (1994): 45-65.
  2. ↑ Kleiber, Christian, and Achim Zeileis. Applied econometrics with R. Springer, 2008.
  3. ↑ Tempelaar, Dirk Tiemen. Expectancy-value based achievement motivations and their role in student learning. Universitaire Pers Maastricht, 2007.
  4. 1 2 Christiaan Heij at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ Markovsky, Ivan. "Structured low-rank approximation and its applications." Automatica 44.4 (2008): 891-909.
  6. ↑ Markovsky, Ivan, and Sabine Van Huffel. "Overview of total least-squares methods." Signal processing 87.10 (2007): 2283-2302.
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