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| Born | Alexander Philip Dawid (1946-02-01)1 February 1946 (age 79) Blackburn, Lancashire, England |
| Citizenship | British |
| Education | City of London School |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, MA, ScD)[2] |
| Awards | Guy Medal (1978, 2001) Snedecor Award (1977) Fellow of the Royal Society (2018) |
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| Fields | Statistics[1] |
| Institutions | University College London City University, London Cambridge University |
| Website | www |
Alexander Philip DawidFRS[3] (pronounced 'David';[4] born 1 February 1946) isEmeritus Professor of Statistics of theUniversity of Cambridge, and aFellow ofDarwin College, Cambridge. He is a leading proponent ofBayesian statistics.[5][6][2][1]
Dawid was educated at theCity of London School,Trinity Hall, Cambridge andDarwin College, Cambridge.[7]
Dawid has made fundamental contributions to both the philosophical underpinnings and the practical applications of statistics.[3] His theory ofconditional independence is a keystone of modern statistical theory and methods, and he has demonstrated its usefulness in a host of applications, including computation in probabilisticexpert systems,causal inference, and forensic identification.[3][8][9][10]
Dawid was lecturer in statistics at University College London from 1969 to 1978. He was subsequently Professor of Statistics atCity University, London until 1981, when he returned to UCL as a reader, becoming Pearson Professor of Statistics there in 1982. He moved to the University of Cambridge where he was appointed Professor of Statistics in 2007, retiring in 2013.[citation needed]
He was elected a member of theInternational 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.[11] He is also an elected Fellow of theInstitute of Mathematical Statistics.[12] and of theRoyal Society. He received the 1977George W. Snedecor Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.[13]Dawid was awarded the 1978Guy Medal in Bronze[14] and the 2001Guy Medal in Silver by the Royal Statistical Society.[15]
His bookProbabilistic Networks and Expert Systems,[16] written jointly with Robert G. Cowell,Steffen Lauritzen, andDavid Spiegelhalter, received the 2001 DeGroot Prize from theInternational Society for Bayesian Analysis.[17]
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