Re: [ABE-L]: Leading British statistician, Dennis Lindley, dies

["Dani Gamerman" <dani@im.ufrj.br>]

meu texto sobre o Lindley foi postado no StatPop.
Dani

> Prezados colegas,
>     E' com grande tristeza que divido hoje com voces a noticia 
> triste do falecimento de um icone para muitos de no's Bayesianos: 
> Dennis V. Lindley.  Muitos de no's tivemos o prazer de conhece-lo 
> pessoalmente, mas gostaria de pedir ao Carlinhos, Migon e Dani (e 
> quem mais puder) para dividir conosco a influencia dessa grande 
> figura em suas carreiras.      Pra mim basta dizer que Dennis 
> orientou ambos Adrian Smith e Jose Bernardo e que seu trabalho e de 
> seus descententes cientificos compreendem uma era muito influente do 
> pensamento Bayesiano.
> 
> Att,
> Hedibert
> 
> Leading British statistician, Dennis Lindley, dies
> Written by Web News Editor on 16 December 2013. Posted in News
> 
> It is with great regret that we announce the death of a leading 
> figure in statistics, Dennis Lindley (1923 - 2013). Dennis Lindley 
> was one of the key proponents of Bayesian statistics and his work 
> has been widely recognised in helping to kick-start the ?Bayesian 
> revolution? of recent years. He published more than 100 scholarly 
> articles and books. In his academic career he occupied posts such as 
> the director of the Statistical Laboratory at Cambridge University 
> and head of statistics at University College London. He was a 
> founder and former president of the Valencia International Meetings 
> on Bayesian Statistics. In 2002 he was awarded the Royal Statistical 
> Society?s Guy medal in gold.
> 
> He was an active member of the Royal Statistical Society and served 
> on its Series B editorial panel for almost a decade. He was also 
> secretary and later chair of the Research Section Committee and 
> served as a member and vice president of Council. Most recently, he 
> recorded an interview for the RSS which was played at the Society's 
> Bayes 250 Conference held earlier this year (see embedded footage 
> below).
> 
> Our sincerest condolences go to Dennis?s family, his wife Joan and 
> three children, Janet, Rowan and Robert. A full obituary will be 
> published in the Royal Statistical Society Series A journal in due course.

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Dani Gamerman
Depto. de Métodos Estatísticos (DME)
Lab. de Sistemas Estocásticos (LSE)
Instituto de Matemática - UFRJ
http://www.dme.ufrj.br/dani
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