@article{da4be78d74cb4ca0a42ac728e5f21e4c,
title = "When copulas and smoothing met: An interview with Ir{\`e}ne Gijbels",
author = "Christian Genest and Matthias Scherer",
note = "Funding Information: At the end of high school, I was awarded a prize for “maintaining a positive attitude throughout the past six years.” This was highly unusual, in particular given the type of school. The prize as such was not that important to me, but the award came with two math books in English from the Schaum series. The idea definitely came from my math teacher, and I guess he never suspected what impact that prize had on me. I worked through these books during summer, just for fun. It comforted me in my idea to go to university. However, I could not get sufficient financial support from my parents. They simply could not afford it, and nobody in the extended family had ever had a university education. Nevertheless my parents respected my wish: I could go if I got a scholarship, and I could continue if I managed to renew the scholarship every year. That is how I became a first-year university student, and the rest is history. ",
year = "2023",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1515/demo-2022-0154",
language = "English",
volume = "11",
journal = "Dependence Modeling",
issn = "2300-2298",
publisher = "Walter de Gruyter GmbH",
number = "1",
}