John van de Geer

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rdf:langString Johannes Petrus "John" van de Geer (21 June 1926, Rotterdam – 9 February 2008, aged 81) was a Dutch psychologist, and Professor of Experimental Psychology at Leiden University, particularly known for his "Introduction to multivariate analysis for the social sciences". Van de Geer received his PhD degree at Leiden University in 1957 with a thesis entitled "A Psychological Study of Problem Solving" advised by . Van de Geer was appointed Professor of Experimental Psychology at Leiden University Department of Data Theory in 1961. Among his doctorate students were Willem Levelt (1965), (1967), Willem Albert Wagenaar (1972), Jan de Leeuw (1973), Willem Heiser (1981) and Jacqueline Meulman (1986). Van de Geer was Visiting Professor at the University of Ankara in 1969. He retired as Professor of "Social Research Methodology, in particular the data theory relating to the social science research" from Leiden University in 1987. His daughter Sara van de Geer is a statistician.