Adrian Smith (academic)
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Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith FRS is a British statistician and Principal of Queen Mary, University of London. He is a proponent of Bayesian statistics and evidence-based practice. He is a former President of the Royal Statistical Society and led the team which produced the Smith Report on secondary mathematics education in the United Kingdom. He wrote an influential paper in 1990 along with Alan Gelfand (statistician), which drew attention to the significance of the Gibbs sampler technique for Bayesian numerical integration problems. Smith was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and University College London where his PhD supervisor was Dennis Lindley.
His FRS citation included "his diverse contributions to Bayesian statistics. His monographs are the most comprehensive available and his work has had a major impact on the development of monitoring tools for clinicians."
[edit] References
A.E. Gelfand and A.F.M. Smith. "Sampling-Based Approaches to Calculating Marginal Densities". J. American Statistical Association, 85:398-409, 1990.
[edit] External links
There is a photograph at
- Adrian F M Smith on the Portraits of Statisticians page.
| Preceded by David Bartholomew |
President of the Royal Statistical Society 1995—1997 |
Succeeded by R.N. Curnow |
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