David Hand (statistician)
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David John Hand OBE FBA (born 30 June 1950 in Peterborough)[2][4] is a British statistician.[1] His research interests include multivariate statistics, classification methods, pattern recognition, computational statistics and the foundations of statistics.[5] He has written technical books on statistics, data mining, finance, classification methods, and measuring wellbeing, as well as science popularisation books including The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day;[6] Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters;[7] and Statistics: A Very Short Introduction. In 1991 he launched the journal Statistics and Computing.
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Born | David John Hand (1950-06-30) 30 June 1950 (age 73) Peterborough, England |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA) University of Southampton (PhD) |
Awards | Guy Medal (2002) George Box Medal (2016) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics Machine learning Data mining Data science Big data[1] |
Institutions | Open University Imperial College London Winton Capital Management[2] |
Thesis | The Classification of Incomplete Vectors (1977) |
Doctoral advisor | Bruce Godfrey Batchelor [Wikidata][3] |
Website | www |
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