David Spiegelhalter
British statistician and communicator
David Spiegelhalter is a British statistician at the University of Cambridge who works on risk and evidence. He is the author of The Art of Statistics.
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British Born 1953 in Barnstaple, United Kingdom
About David Spiegelhalter
Sir David Spiegelhalter is a statistician from Britain, and he has a fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge. He was born in 1953 and became Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge in 2007. He has also chaired the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication. His background is in medical statistics, with a focus on Bayesian methods. A team he worked with developed the BUGS software for applying Bayesian analysis. He led the statistical team for the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry and gave evidence to the Shipman Inquiry. He was also president of the Royal Statistical Society in 2017 and 2018. His book in our catalog is The Art of Statistics.