Adrian Smith (academic)
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Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith is a British statistician and Principal of Queen Mary, University of London. He is a proponent of Bayesian statistics and evidence-based practice. He is a former President of the Royal Statistical Society and led the team which produced the Smith Report on secondary mathematics education in the United Kingdom. He wrote an influential paper in 1990 which drew attention to the significance of the Gibbs sampler technique for Bayesian numerical integration problems. Smith was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and University College London where his PhD supervisor was Dennis Lindley.
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There is a photograph at
- Adrian F M Smith on the Portraits of Statisticians page.
| Preceded by: David Bartholomew | President of the Royal Statistical Society 1995—1997 | Succeeded by: R.N. Curnow |
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