José-Miguel Bernardo
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José-Miguel Bernardo is a Spanish
mathematician
and statistician
. A noted Bayesian
, he is currently a professor of Statistics at the University of Valencia.
He is a founding co-President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), 1992-1994. His areas of research interest are:
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
and statistician
Statistician
A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...
. A noted Bayesian
Bayesian statistics
Bayesian statistics is that subset of the entire field of statistics in which the evidence about the true state of the world is expressed in terms of degrees of belief or, more specifically, Bayesian probabilities...
, he is currently a professor of Statistics at the University of Valencia.
He is a founding co-President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), 1992-1994. His areas of research interest are:
- The nature and scope of Bayesian Statistics
- The relationship between information theory and statistics
- The foundations and the derivation of nonsubjective, reference priors
- The foundations of decision theory
- Bayesian hypothesis testing and model criticism
- Point and region intrinsic estimation
- Probabilistic classification
- Applications of Bayesian Statistics and decision theory to medical problems (automatic diagnosis)
- Political analysis (election forecasting, sample surveys),
- Industrial problems (quality assurance).
See also
- Bayesian probabilityBayesian probabilityBayesian probability is one of the different interpretations of the concept of probability and belongs to the category of evidential probabilities. The Bayesian interpretation of probability can be seen as an extension of logic that enables reasoning with propositions, whose truth or falsity is...