Dennis Victor Lindley (25 July 1923 – 14 December 2013) was an English statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics. Lindley...
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Cromwell's rule, named by statistician Dennis Lindley, states that the use of prior probabilities of 1 ("the event will definitely occur") or 0 ("the event...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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Cambridge, and University College London, where his PhD supervisor was Dennis Lindley. From 1977 until 1990, he was professor of statistics and head of department...
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discussed in Harold Jeffreys' 1939 textbook; it became known as Lindley's paradox after Dennis Lindley called the disagreement a paradox in a 1957 paper. Although...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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we do not study the mechanism of rain; only whether it will rain. — Dennis Lindley, "The Philosophy of Statistics," The Statistician (Series D, 2000) It...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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group he was put in charge of included Peter Armitage, Dennis Lindley and Robin Plackett. Lindley recalls that they were like students working for a doctorate...
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1953–1956 John Wishart 1956–1957 Henry Daniels, Acting Director 1957–1960 Dennis Lindley 1960–1962 Morris Walker, Acting Director 1962–1973 David Kendall 1973–1987...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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travel — is said to be closer to green cheese than to any rock on Earth. Dennis Lindley used the myth to help explain the necessity of Cromwell's rule in Bayesian...
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and author Debbie Lindley (born 1973), British TV presenter and journalist Dennis Lindley (1923–2013), British statistician Dick Lindley, English professional...
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profile, leicesterconservatives.com; accessed 1 June 2008. "The Lindley Prize - Dennis V. Lindley" Archived 19 February 2001 at the Wayback Machine, International...
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first proposed in the discussion following Kendall's 1951 paper. In Dennis Lindley's first paper on the subject the equation is used to describe waiting...
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information. Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it. Dennis Lindley, Understanding Uncertainty (2006) For example, if it is unknown whether...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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Armitage 1993 George E. P. Box 1996 Peter Whittle 1999 Michael Healy 2002 Dennis Lindley 2005 John Nelder 2008 James Durbin 2011 C. R. Rao 2013 John Kingman...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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held annually over Easter at Gregynog Hall since 1965. Established by Dennis Lindley during his tenure at Aberystwyth, Gregynog Hall has welcomed a number...
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(1990) George E. P. Box (1993) Peter Whittle (1996) Michael Healy (1999) Dennis Lindley (2002) John Nelder (2005) James Durbin (2008) C. R. Rao (2011) John...
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