Wilfrid Kendall

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Wilfrid S. Kendall
Wilfrid S Kendall Oberwolfach 2008 (cropped).jpg
Kendall at Oberwolfach, 2008
Born5 November 1954 (1954-11-05) (age 70)
Oxford, UK
NationalityBritish
Alma mater University of Oxford
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Warwick

Wilfrid S. Kendall is professor of statistics at the University of Warwick. [1] He earned a DPhil in probability theory from the University of Oxford in 1979, authored or edited 5 books, published around 100 scientific articles in theoretical and applied probability and has been the president of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (2013-2015). [2] He is founding co-director of the UK Academy for PhD Training in Statistics (established in 2007), [3] which each year provides training for around 90 first-year Statistics PhD students from the UK and Republic of Ireland.

Kendall is the son of fellow statistician, the late David George Kendall and the brother of television journalist Bridget Kendall. [4]

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References

  1. "Department of Statistics Staff - Wilfrid Kendall's Personal Page". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  2. Bernoulli News. "A view from the president" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  3. APTS. "Academy for PhD Training in Statistics".
  4. "Obituary in the Times". TimesOnline. Archived from the original on 19 May 2009.