Donald Arthur Berry is a statistician

Statistician

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 and one of the proponents of Bayesian statistics

Bayesian statistics

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. He has been the chairman of the Department of Biostatistics

Biostatistics

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 and Applied Mathematics at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

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 since 1999, where he has played a role in the use of Bayesian methods to develop innovative, adaptive clinical trial

Clinical trial

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s. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association

American Statistical Association

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and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He founded Berry Consultants, a statistical consulting group, with Scott Berry in 2000.

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