Terry Speed

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Professor Terence Paul Speed, or Terry Speed (born 14 March 1943), is an Australian statistician, known for his contributions to bioinformatics, and in particular to the analysis of microarrays data.

He obtained a PhD from Monash University in 1968 and currently shares his time between the department of statistics of the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, in Melbourne (Australia), where he is head of the Bioinformatics division.

He was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2004.[1] In 2002, he received the Pitman medal.[2]

He was also an expert witness at the trial for the O. J. Simpson murder case.[3], as well as an expert witness in the Imanishi-Kari case, an affair of alleged scientific misconduct which involved biologist David Baltimore.[4]

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  1. ^ List of Past Executive Committee Members, on the Web site of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
  2. ^ Pitman medal for 2002 awarded to Terry Speed, Aust. N.Z. J. Stat 45(1), 2003. 1–4.
  3. ^ Defense witness list for the O.J. Simpson civil trial, published by USA Today.
  4. ^ Daniel Kevles (1998), The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. 345–348.

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