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Robert Griffiths | |
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| Born | 17 July 1944  (age 78)Wagga Wagga |
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| Occupation | Statistician |
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| Website | http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~griff/ |
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He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010. [1]
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