Entropy and basic statistics.- Analysis of the association in two-way contingency tables.- Analysis of the association in multiway contingency tables.- Analysis of continuous variables

Nobuoki Eshima was born in Fukuoka, Japan in 1957. He was received B. Sc. and D. Sc. degrees in Mathematics from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan in 1980 and 1993, respectively. In 1993, he joined Department of Statistics, Faculty of General Education, Nagasaki University as Associate Professor. In 1996, he joined Department of Medical Information Analysis, Faculty of Medicine, Oita Medical University as Professor. Since 2003 he is working as a Professor in Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, where the name of affiliation has changed because of combining with another university. From 2016, he is a professor of Center for Educational Outreach and Admissions, Kyoto University. He is an elected member of International Statistical Institute (ISI) and a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).