- Philip Dawid
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field =Bayesian statistics
work_institutions =University College London City University, London
alma_mater =City of London School Trinity Hall, Cambridge Darwin College, Cambridge
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footnotes =Alexander Philip Dawid (born
1 February 1946 ) is Professor of Statistics at theUniversity of Cambridge , and Fellow ofDarwin College, Cambridge . He is a leading proponent ofBayesian statistics .He was educated at the
City of London School ,Trinity Hall, Cambridge andDarwin College, Cambridge .He was lecturer in statistics at University College London from 1969 to 1978. He was then Professor of Statistics at The
City University until 1981, when he returned to UCL as a reader, becoming Pearson Professor of Statistics there in 1982.He was elected a member of the
International Statistical Institute in 1978, and a Chartered Statistician of theRoyal Statistical Society in 1993. He was editor ofBiometrika from 1992 to 1996 and President of theInternational Society for Bayesian Analysis in 2000.Papers
* Spiegelhalter, David J., A. Philip Dawid, Steffen L. Lauritzen and Robert G. Cowell "Bayesian analysis in expert systems" in Statistical Science, 8(3), 1993.
* Robert G. Cowell, A. Philip Dawid, David J. Spiegelhalter, "Sequential Model Criticism in Probabilistic Expert Systems." IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 15(3), 1993
* A. Philip Dawid, Uffe Kjærulff, Steffen L. Lauritzen, "Hybrid Propagation in Junction Trees." IPMU 1994ee also
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List of British Jewish scientists
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