Professor Philip Dawid

Department of Statistical Science, UCL
Email: dawid@stats.ucl.ac.uk
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My research has been largely motivated by the desire to understand and explore the connexions between logical and philosophical principles of inference, mathematical structures, and data-analysis. Much of my work is a critical examination of the logical Foundations of Statistics, both from a general standpoint and in respect of particular schools of thought--especially Bayesian, but also Likelihood, Frequentist, Structural and Fiducial. Early work on the Marginalization Paradox in improper Bayesian inference continues to stimulate debate. I have developed and applied Bayesian decision-theoretic ideas to clarify the theory of Optimal Experimental Design. Other Bayesian interests include Coherent Combination of Expert Opinion, Matrix Distribution Theory and Bayesian Multivariate Analysis, Model Uncertainty, Maximum Entropy and Robust Bayesian Decision Theory.