Brian D. Ripley

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Brian David Ripley , (born April 29, 1952 ) is a British mathematician who studies stochastics . He is a professor at the University of Oxford .

Ripley studied at Cambridge University with his doctorate in 1976 with David George Kendall (Stochastic Geometry and the Analysis of Spatial Patterns). From 1976 to 1983 he was at Imperial College London and then Professor at the University of Strathclyde . Ripley had been Professor of Applied Statistics and Professor Fellow at St Peter's College, Oxford since 1990, but retired in 2014 for health reasons.

He dealt with spatial analysis , pattern recognition and neural networks in the context of statistics.

Ripley received the first Rollo Davidson Prize in 1976 . He also received the Smith Prize (1975) and the Adams Prize (1987) at Cambridge . In 2013 he received the Guy Medal. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics .

Fonts

  • Spatial Statistics. Wiley, 1981
  • Stochastic simulation. Wiley, 1983.
  • Statistical Inference for Spatial Processes. Cambridge University Press, 1988
  • Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks. Cambridge University Press, 1996
  • with WN Venables: S Programming. Springer, 2000
  • with WN Venables: Modern Applied Statistics with S, 4th edition, Springer 2002 (first 1994)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brian D. Ripley in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Ripley, Brian D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ripley, Brian David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1952