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Sibson, Robin (1981), "A brief description of natural neighbour interpolation", in Barnett, Vic, Interpreting multivariate data, Chichester West Sussex New York: Wiley, pp.21–35, ISBN9780471280392
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References
↑ "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 4 May 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2014. Prof Robin Sibson, Chief Executive, Higher Education Statistics Agency, 2001–09, 67
↑ Ballester, José María; Mazza, Gabriele (2006), "Foreword", in Bergan, Sjur; Sanz, Nuria, The heritage of European universities, Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, pp.9–10, ISBN9789287161215, Our thanks also go to Professor Robin Sibson, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Kent at Canterbury and a member of the CC-HER Bureau, who launched the idea of including the university heritage in the campaign in the first place.
↑ "Universities as Sites of Citizenship". Council of Europe. Retrieved 26 April 2014. As a follow-up to one of its preliminary contributions to the definition of the concept of citizenship, the CC-HER (Higher Education and Research Committee, predecessor of the CDESR) adopted, at its 6th plenary session on 16–18 March 1999, an outline project called “University as site of citizenship” and instructed its Bureau and its Secretariat to develop the project further.
↑ Sibson, Robin (1981), "A brief description of natural neighbour interpolation", in Barnett, Vic, Interpreting multivariate data, Chichester West Sussex New York: Wiley, pp.21–35, ISBN9780471280392
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