Julian Ernst Besag | |
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| Born | 26 March 1945 |
| Died | 6 August 2010 (aged 65) |
| Alma mater | University of Birmingham |
| Known for | Spatial statistics, image analysis, Markov random fields & MCMC |
| Awards | Guy Medal (Silver, 1983) Fellow of the Royal Society (2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistician |
| Institutions | Universities of Oxford, Liverpool, Durham, Newcastle and Washington |
| Academic advisors | M. S. Bartlett[1] |
Julian Ernst Besag FRS (26 March 1945 – 6 August 2010) was a British statistician known chiefly for his work in spatial statistics (including its applications to epidemiology, image analysis and agricultural science), and Bayesian inference (including Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms).