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Bernard Silverman
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Residence
UK
Name
Bernard Silverman
Nationality
British
Role
Statistician
Fields
Statistician
Alma mater
Cambridge University
Born
22 February 1952 (age 72) (
1952-02-22
)
Thesis
Data Analysis: Some Theory and Practice (1978)
Known for
density estimation, nonparametric regression, functional data analysis
Education
University of Cambridge, Jesus College, Cambridge
Books
Density Estimation for Statisti, Applied Functional Data Anal, Functional Data Analysis, A Comparison of the Rei
Institutions
University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor
David George Kendall
Home office mathematics professor bernard silverman
Bernard Walter Silverman, (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician and Anglican Priest. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009. He is a member of the Statistics Department at Oxford University, and is also attached to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. He has been a member of the Council of Oxford University and of the Council of the Royal Society. He was briefly President of the Royal Statistical Society in January 2010, a position from which he stood down upon announcement of his appointment as Chief Scientific Advisor to the Home Office.
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 and 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 and 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
2003–09 Master of St Peter's College, Oxford
2010– Senior Research Fellow, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford (part-time)
2010– Professorial Research Associate, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford (part-time)
2010– Chief Scientific Advisor, Home Office
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) through STETS
Awards and honours
1970 Gold Medal, International Mathematical Olympiad
1974 Mayhew Prize for Mathematical Tripos Part III, University of 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 the Committee of presidents of Statistical Societies
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
Ecclesiastical career
Silverman was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1999 and as a priest in 2000. From 1999 to 2005, he was an honorary assistant curate of Cotham Parish Church in the Diocese of Bristol. Between 2005-2009, he held Permission to Officiate in the Diocese of Oxford. Then, from 2009 to 2015, he was an honorary assistant curate of St Giles' Church and St Margaret's Church, Oxford. Since 2015, he has held Permission to Officiate in both the Diocese of Oxford and in the Diocese of London.
Books
Green, P.J.; Silverman, B.W. (1994). Nonparametric Regression and Generalized Linear Models: A Roughness Penalty Approach. Chapman & Hall.
Ramsay, J.O.; Silverman, B.W. (2002). Applied Functional Data Analysis: Methods and Case Studies. Springer-Verlag.
Ramsay, J.O.; Silverman, B.W. (2005) [1997]. Functional Data Analysis (second, expanded and rewritten ed.). Springer-Verlag.
Silverman, B.W. (1986). Density Estimation for Statistics and Data Analysis. Chapman & Hall.
Silverman, B.W.; Vassilicos, J.C., eds. (2000). Wavelets: The Key to Intermittent Information?. Oxford University Press.