Julian Besag

Julian Ernst Besag
Born(1945-03-26)26 March 1945
Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK
Died6 August 2010(2010-08-06) (aged 65)
Bristol, UK
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham
Known forSpatial statistics, image analysis, Markov random fields & MCMC
AwardsGuy Medal (Silver, 1983)
Fellow of the Royal Society (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistician
InstitutionsUniversities of Oxford, Liverpool, Durham, Newcastle and Washington
Academic advisorsM. S. Bartlett

Julian Ernst Besag FRS (26 March 1945 – 6 August 2010) was a British statistician known chiefly for his work in spatial statistics (including its applications to epidemiology, image analysis and agricultural science), and Bayesian inference (including Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms).

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