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11 Facts About Philip Dawid

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Alexander Philip Dawid is Emeritus Professor of Statistics of the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.

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Philip Dawid has made fundamental contributions to both the philosophical underpinnings and the practical applications of statistics.

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Philip Dawid's theory of conditional independence is a keystone of modern statistical theory and methods, and he has demonstrated its usefulness in a host of applications, including computation in probabilistic expert systems, causal inference, and forensic identification.

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Philip Dawid was lecturer in statistics at University College London from 1969 to 1978.

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Philip Dawid was Professor of Statistics at City University, London until 1981, when he returned to UCL as a reader, becoming Pearson Professor of Statistics there in 1982.

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Philip Dawid moved to the University of Cambridge where he was appointed Professor of Statistics in 2007, retiring in 2013.

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Philip Dawid was elected a member of the International Statistical Institute in 1978, and a Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society in 1993.

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Philip Dawid was editor of Biometrika from 1992 to 1996 and President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis in 2000.

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Philip Dawid is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

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Philip Dawid received the 1977 George W Snedecor Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.

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Philip Dawid was awarded the 1978 Guy Medal in Bronze and the 2001 Guy Medal in Silver by the Royal Statistical Society.