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David Firth (born c. 1958) is a British statistician specialising in social-science and biostatistical applications. Firth obtained his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1987 under the supervision of David Roxbee Cox.
He was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver in 2012.
Professor Firth developed quasi-variance estimation, a statistical approach to overcome the reference category problem when estimating the effects of a categorical explanatory variable within a statistical model.
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