David Firth (statistician)

David Firth
Born (1957-12-22) 22 December 1957 (age 66)[1]
Wakefield, United Kingdom[1]
Alma mater
Known for
[7][8]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Institutions
ThesisQuasi-likelihood estimation: Efficiency and other aspects (1987)
Doctoral advisorDavid Roxbee Cox[2]
Websitewarwick.ac.uk/dfirth

David Firth FBA (born 22 December 1957) is a British statistician.[1] He is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "FIRTH, Prof. David". Who's Who. Vol. 2022 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ David Firth at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Firth, David (1993). "Bias reduction of maximum likelihood estimates". Biometrika. 80 (1): 27–38. doi:10.2307/2336755. JSTOR 2336755.
  4. ^ Kosmidis, Ioannis; Firth, David (2009). "Bias reduction in exponential-family nonlinear models". Biometrika. 96 (4): 793–804. doi:10.1093/biomet/asp055.
  5. ^ Kosmidis, Ioannis; Firth, David (2021). "Jeffreys-prior penalty, finiteness and shrinkage in binomial-response generalized linear models". Biometrika. 108 (1): 71–81. arXiv:1812.01938. doi:10.1093/biomet/asaa052.
  6. ^ Curtice, John; Firth, David (2008). "Exit polling in a cold climate: The BBC/ITV experience in Britain in 2005 (with discussion)". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society). 171: 509–539. doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00536.x. S2CID 16758864.
  7. ^ Firth, David (2003). "Overcoming the reference category problem in the presentation of statistical models". Sociological Methodology. 33: 1–18. doi:10.1111/j.0081-1750.2003.t01-1-00125.x. S2CID 120695908.
  8. ^ Firth, David; de Menezes, Renée (2004). "Quasi-variances". Biometrika. 91 (1): 65–80. doi:10.1093/biomet/91.1.65.