Numbersense Pros: An interview with David Spiegelhalter
Numbers Rule Your World 2014-04-01
Summary:
I am excited to chat with Professor David Spiegelhalter, who is no strangers to our UK audience, and our statistics colleagues. Perhaps his most well-known contribution is the DIC criterion for model selection, introduced by a paper by him and collaborators. He holds the impressive title of Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge (link). He also writes a blog called Understanding Uncertainty (link), and as the accompanying photos show, is someone who knows how to enjoy life. I mean, a statistician who appeared on Winter Wipeout (link to Youtube for spectacular splashes at...