Julian Besag
Julian Ernst Besag FRS (26 March 1945 – 6 August 2010) was a British statistician known chiefly for his work in spatial statistics (including its applications to epidemiology, image analysis and agricultural science), and Bayesian inference (including Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms).
Julian Ernst Besag | |
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| Born | 26 March 1945 Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK |
| Died | 6 August 2010 (aged 65) Bristol, UK |
| Alma mater | University of Birmingham |
| Known for | Spatial statistics, image analysis, Markov random fields & MCMC |
| Awards | Guy Medal (Silver, 1983) Fellow of the Royal Society (2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistician |
| Institutions | Universities of Oxford, Liverpool, Durham, Newcastle and Washington |
| Academic advisors | M. S. Bartlett |
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