Bernard Silverman | |
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 Silverman in 2008 | |
| Born | 22 February 1952 London, England[1] |
| Education | City of London School[2] |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Known for | density estimation, nonparametric regression, functional data analysis |
| Awards | Mayhew Prize (1974) Smith's Prize (1976) Gold Medal International Mathematical Olympiad Guy Medal (Bronze, 1984) (Silver, 1997) COPSS Presidents' Award (1991) Fellow of the Royal Society |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistician |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Data Analysis: Some Theory and Practice (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | D. G. Kendall |
Sir Bernard Walter Silverman, FRS, FAcSS (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician and former[3] Anglican clergyman. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009. He is a member of the Statistics Department at Oxford University, and has also been attached to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. He has been a member of the Council of Oxford University and of the Council of the Royal Society.[4] He was briefly president of the Royal Statistical Society in January 2010, a position from which he stood down upon announcement of his appointment as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office.[5] He was awarded a knighthood in the 2018 New Years Honours List, "For public service and services to Science".[6]
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
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- ^ Council for 2008/9 of the Royal Society
- ^ "New Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser announced". Home Office Press Office. Archived from the original on 10 April 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
- ^ Official 2018 New Years Honours List