David Spiegelhalter

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David Spiegelhalter

David John Spiegelhalter FRS (16 August 1953 -) is a statistician. He works at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge.

1 Education
2 Career
3 Research interests
4 Honours

[edit] Education

He studied at the University of Oxford (BA 1974) and University College London (MSc 1975, PhD 1978; his PhD supervisor was Adrian Smith).

[edit] Career

Dr Spiegelhalter was a research assistant at Brunel University in 1976 and a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, 1977-8. After his PhD, he was a research assistant for the Royal College of Physicians; he was based at the University of Nottingham, where his supervisor, Adrian Smith, had been appointed a professor.

Since 1981, he has been at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit at Cambridge. He has been an honorary lecturer at the University of Hong Kong since 1991. He is also a consultant for Ciba-Geigy and Novartis. He played a leading role in the public inquiries into Bristol heart surgery and the murders by Harold Shipman.

His main interests outside work are his stained glass work and treks in various parts of the world.

[edit] Research interests

Bayesian approach to clinical trials, expert systems and complex modelling and epidemiology.
Graphical models of conditional independence.
Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.
General issues in clinical trials, including cluster randomisation, meta-analysis and ethical monitoring.
Monitoring and comparing clinical and public health outcomes.