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Professor Bernard Silverman FRS (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford and a member of the Statistics Department at Oxford University.
[edit] Career
- 1970-73 Undergraduate, Jesus College, Cambridge.
- 1973-74 Graduate Student, Jesus College, Cambridge.
- 1974-75 Research Student, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge.
- 1975-77 Research Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
- 1976-77 Calculator Development Manager, Sinclair Radionics Ltd.
- 1977-78 Junior Lecturer in Statistics, Oxford University and Weir Junior Research Fellow of University College, Oxford.
- 1978-80 Lecturer in Statistics, University of Bath.
- 1981-84 Reader in Statistics, University of Bath.
- 1984 & 1992-93 Head of Statistics Group, University of Bath.
- 1984-93 Professor of Statistics, University of Bath.
- 1988-91 Head of School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath.
- 1993–2003 Professor of Statistics, University of Bristol
- 1993-97 & 1998-99 Head of Statistics Group, University of Bristol
- 1999–2003 Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics, University of Bristol
- 2000-03 Provost of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol
- 2003- Master of St Peter’s College, Oxford
[edit] Degrees and qualifications
- 1973 Bachelor of Arts, Cambridge. (Wrangler)
- 1974 Part III of Mathematical Tripos, Cambridge (with Distinction)
- 1977 Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge
- 1989 Doctor of Science, Cambridge
- 1993 Chartered Statistician, Royal Statistical Society
- 2000 Bachelor of Theology, Southampton (First Class Honours)
[edit] Awards and honours
- 1970 First Prize, International Mathematical Olympiad
- 1974 Mayhew Prize for Mathematical Tripos Part III, Cambridge
- 1976 Smith's Prize, Cambridge University
- 1984 Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze
- 1985 Special Invited Paper, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- 1988 Technometrics Special Discussion Paper, American Statistical Association
- 1991 Presidents' Award of American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Biometric Society (ENAR and WNAR) and Statistical Society of Canada for 'the outstanding statistician under forty' (the COPSS award)
- 1993 Fulkerson Lecturer, Cornell University
- 1995 Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Silver
- 1997 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1999 Special Invited Paper, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- 1999 Henri Willem Methorst Medal, International Statistical Institute
- 2000 Corcoran Lecturer, Oxford University
- 2001 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2002 Original Member, Highly Cited Researchers database, ISI
- 2003 Honorary Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge
[edit] Ecclesiastical
- 1999 Ordained Deacon Church of England
- 2000 Ordained Priest Church of England
- Applied Functional Data Analysis: Methods and Case Studies by J. O. Ramsay and B. W. Silverman. Springer, 2002.
- Wavelets: The Key to Intermittent Information? edited by B. W. Silverman and J. C. Vassilicos. Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Functional Data Analysis by J. O. Ramsay and B. W. Silverman. Springer, 1997. (Second edition, expanded and rewritten, published 2005)
- Nonparametric Regression and Generalized Linear Models: A Roughness Penalty Approach by P. J. Green and B. W. Silverman. Chapman and Hall, 1994.
- Density Estimation for Statistics and Data Analysis by B. W. Silverman. Chapman and Hall, 1986.
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