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Julian Ernst Besag
Julian Ernst Besag
Born	26 March 1945 (age 79); Loughborough, UK
Died	Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day; Bristol, UK
Alma mater	University of Birmingham
Known for	Spatial statistics, image analysis, Markov random fields & MCMC
Awards	Guy Medal in 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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Julian Besag (1945-) is 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).

Besag was born in Loughborough in the United Kingdom. He began studying engineering at the University of Cambridge but moved to the University of Birmingham to study statistics, obtaining his BSc in 1968. He then spent a year as a research assistant to Maurice Bartlett at the University of Oxford before obtaining a lectureship at the University of Liverpool. He moved to the University of Durham in 1975, where he became a professor in 1986. He was a visiting professor at the University of Washington in Seattle during 1989–90 and, after a year at the Newcastle University, returned to Seattle long-term. He officially retired in 2007 but remains an emeritus professor. As of 2010^[update], he is also a visiting professor at the Universities of Bath and Bristol.

Besag is an ISI highly cited researcher; his 1986 paper "On the Statistical Analysis of Dirty Pictures" was the most cited paper by a UK mathematical scientist in the 1980s. The Royal Statistical Society awarded him its Guy Medal in Silver in 1983 for his contributions to spatial statistics, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004.

Besag, J. (1974) "Spatial Interaction and the Statistical Analysis of Lattice Systems", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 36 (2), 192–236. JSTOR 2984812
Besag, J. (1975) "Statistical Analysis of Non-Lattice Data." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D (The Statistician), 24(3), 179–195. JSTOR 2987782
Besag, J.E. (1986) "On the Statistical Analysis of Dirty Pictures," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 48, 259–302. JSTOR 2345426
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