Paul Fearnhead
British statistician, University of Lancaster
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Paul Fearnhead is the Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Lancaster University. He is a researcher in computational statistics, in particular Sequential Monte Carlo methods. His interests include changepoint analysis, sampling theory and genetics – he has published several papers working on the epidemiology of campylobacter by looking at recombination events in a large sample of genomes. Since January 2018 he has been the editor of Biometrika.[1]
Paul Fearnhead | |
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| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Lancaster University |
| Thesis | Sequential Monte Carlo Methods in Filter Theory (1998) |
| Peter Clifford | |
Other academic advisors | Peter Donnelly |
| Website | www |
Awards
Fearnhead won the Adams Prize in 2007.[2]
In 2007 he also won the Guy Medal in Bronze of the Royal Statistical Society.
