Thomas H. Leonard
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| Born | 1948 Devon, UK |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London University College London |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Warwick (1972–1980) University of Wisconsin-Madison (1979–1996) University of Edinburgh (1995–2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dennis Lindley |
Thomas Hoskyns Leonard (born 1948) is a British statistician. He obtained a doctorate in Statistics at the University of London and worked at the University of Warwick and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, before taking up the Chair of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh.
In 1972, Leonard worked at the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick.[1] During Leonard's tenure(1980-1995) in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,[2][3][4] he worked on improving the Bayesian components of both the teaching and research programs, alongside Kam Wah Tsui and Michael Newton.
Leonard retired in 2001.
Leonard has published on the Bayesian approach to categorical data analysis, as well as on function smoothing and prior informative density estimation, conditional Laplacian approximations for marginal inference and prediction, and the statistical modelling of log covariance matrices. He has also worked on the applications of Bayesian methodology in geophysics, medicine, and psychometrics. He was one of the founders, in 1992, of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, alongside Arnold Zellner and Gordon Kaufman,[5].
Leonard is the co-author of Bayesian Methods: An analysis for Statisticians and Interdisciplinary Researchers with John S. J. Hsu[6][7][8]
At the University of Edinburgh Leonard collaborated with Ian Main, Orestis Papasouliotis and others on a publication in Geophysics[9]
Notes
- ^ "The Histories of Mathematics & Statistics at Warwick" (PDF).
- ^ "Wisconsin History, Dept of Statistics" (PDF).
- ^ "UW Department of Statistics Celebrates 50 Years | Amstat News". magazine.amstat.org. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
- ^ "50Th ANNIVERSARY DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS University of Wisconsin".
- ^ "ISBA History and Meetings", accessed 25 December 2015
- ^ Leonard, Thomas; Hsu, John S. J. (1999-01-01). Bayesian Methods: An Analysis for Statisticians and Interdisciplinary Researchers. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521004145.
- ^ "John S.J. Shu". www.pstat.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
- ^ "Bayesian Methods - Cambridge University Press". www.cambridge.org. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
- ^ "One slope or two? Detecting statistically significant breaks of slope in geophysical data, with application to fracture scaling relationships (PDF Download Available)". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2017-01-23.
References
- Leonard, Thomas H. (March–April 2014), "A Personal History of Bayesian Statistics", WIREs Computational Statistics, 6 (2): 80–115, doi:10.1002/wics.1293
