Nationality British Fields Statistics Role Professor | Name Guy Nason Doctoral advisor Robin Sibson | |
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Born 28 August 1966 (age 57) ( 1966-08-28 ) Alma mater University of Bath
University of Cambridge Doctoral students Idris Eckley
Piotr Fryzlewicz Books Wavelet Methods in Statistics with R Education University of Cambridge, University of Bath | ||
Institutions University of Bristol | ||
Guy nason a test for local white noise and the absence of aliasing in locally stationary
Guy Philip Nason (born 28 August 1966) is a British statistician, and Professor of Statistics at the University of Bristol.
Nason received his BSc from the University of Bath in 1988, a diploma in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Cambridge in 1989, and a PhD in Statistics from the University of Bath in 1992. He served as a Council member of the Royal Statistical Society (2004–08) and is a member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team for Mathematics. He was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow during 2000–5 and was awarded the Guy Medal in bronze by the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) in 2001. He took over the post as head of mathematics at Bristol from Stephen Wiggins in 2008.
Nason is best known for his work in the area of time series analysis, especially wavelet approaches. He has served as the Secretary of the RSS Research Section (2002–04), associate editor for the Journal of the RSS, Series B, Computational Statistics and Statistica Sinica and is currently an associate editor for Biometrika.