Prof David Hand, OBE

Career: statistician Inst of Psychiatry 1977-88, prof of statistics and head Statistics Dept Open Univ 1988-99, prof of statistics Imperial Coll London 1999-2011 (emeritus prof of mathematics 2011-); chief scientific advsr Winton Capital Mgmnt 2010-; Thomas L Saaty Prize for Applied Advances in the Math and Mgmnt Sciences 2001, Guy Medal in Silver RSS 2002; memb Int Statistical Inst 1988; FRSS 1973, CStat 1993, Hon FIA 1999, FBA 2003

Books and Publications: Discrimination and Classification (1981), Finite Mixture Distributions (jtly, 1981), Kernel Discriminant Analysis (1982), Artificial Intelligence and Psychiatry (1985), Multivariate Analysis of Variance and Repeated Measures: a practical guide for behavioural scientists (jtly, 1987), The Statistical Consultant in Action (jt ed, 1987), Analysis of Repeated Measures (jtly, 1990), Artificial Intelligence Frontiers in Statistics (ed, 1993), AI and Computer Power (ed, 1994), A Handbook of Small Data Sets (jt ed, 1994), Elements of Statistics (jtly, 1995), Biplots (jtly, 1996), Practical Longitudinal Data Analysis (jtly, 1996), Construction and Assessment of Classification Rules (1997), Statistics in Finance (jt ed, 1998), Intelligent Data Analysis (jt ed, 1999, 2 edn 2003), Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA-99 (jt ed, 1999), Principles of Data Mining (jtly, 2001), Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA-01 (jt ed, 2001), Pattern Detection and Discovery (jt ed, 2002), Methods and Models in Statistics (jt ed, 2004), Measurement Theory and Practice (2004), Selected Statistical Papers of Sir David Cox (jt ed, 2005), Information Generation (2007), Statistics: a Very Short Introduction (2008), ROC Curves for Continuous Data (jtly, 2009)