Nationality British Institutions University of Bath Fields Statistics | Name Robin Sibson Role Mathematician Doctoral students Guy Nason | |
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Born 4 May 1944 (age 79) ( 1944-05-04 ) Alma mater University of Cambridge Known for Natural neighbour interpolation | ||
Education University of Cambridge Doctoral advisor David George Kendall | ||
ArcGis Interpolation By Natural Neighbor
Robin Sibson (4 May 1944 – 19 March 2017) was a British mathematician and educator.
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He was a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, professor of statistics at the University of Bath and then vice-chancellor of the University of Kent. He was chief executive of the Higher Education Statistics Agency from 2001 until 2009. He was also a member of the Committee for Higher Education and Research (CC-HER), the predecessor to the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research (CDESR).
He died on 19 March 2017 at the age of 72.
Research
He was the developer of natural neighbour interpolation on discrete sets of points in space.
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