Bio
Professor of Statistics at Warwick and Director of WDSI. Previously Professor of Social Statistics at Oxford. ESRC Professorial Fellow (2003-2006). Fellow of the British Academy (2008). RSS Guy Medals in Bronze (1998) and Silver (2012). John M Chambers Statistical Software Award, 2007. Editor of J Roy Stat Soc B (1998-2001). Publications include three RSS Read Papers and ten R packages.
Research
He works on statistical theory, methods and computation, and applications in many disciplines, especially the social sciences. His research at the Turing will include:
– General approaches to scalability of statistical models and associated software (with Ioannis Kosmidis)
– Scalable “scoring” in massive pair-comparison networks. Applications of this are in commerce, bibliometrics, sport, etc.
– “Sports analytics” more generally (with Ioannis Kosmidis).
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