David Hand (statistician)

David John Hand (born 30 June 1950 in Peterborough^[1]) is a British statistician. His research interests include multivariate statistics, classification methods, pattern recognition, the computational statistics and the foundations of statistics.^[2]

Hand was a professor of statistics at the Open University from 1988 until 1999, when he moved to Imperial College London^[1]. He was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver by the Royal Statistical Society in 2002 and served as its President in 2008–9, then again from in 2010 after Bernard Silverman stood down.^[3] He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Prof David Hand Authorised Biography at Debrett's People of Today. Accessed 2011-01-27.
2. ^ "Professor David Hand". Imperial College London. http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.j.hand. Retrieved 2011-01-27. 
3. ^ "Past President". The Royal Statistical Society.. http://www.rss.org.uk/site/cms/contentviewarticle.asp?article=486. Retrieved 2011-01-27. 

Academic offices
Preceded by Tim Holt	President, Royal Statistical Society 2008–2009	Succeeded by Bernard Silverman
Preceded by Bernard Silverman	President, Royal Statistical Society February–December 2010	Succeeded by Valerie Isham

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Name	Hand, David
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Date of birth	1950-06-30
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