Don Berry (statistician)
Donald Arthur Berry (born May 26, 1940) is an American statistician and a practitioner and proponent of Bayesian statistics in medical science. He was the chairman of the Department of Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1999-2010, where he played a role in the use of Bayesian methods to develop innovative, adaptive clinical trials. He is best known for the development of statistical theory relating to the design of clinical trials. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He founded Berry Consultants, a statistical consulting group, with Scott Berry in 2000.
Don Berry | |
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| Born | May 26, 1940 Southbridge, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Minnesota Duke University University of Texas |
| Thesis | A Bernoulli Two-Armed Bandit |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph B. Kadane Leonard J. Savage |
| Doctoral students | Lurdes Inoue |
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