Adelchi Azzalini (born 1951) is an Italian statistician and educator. He is known for research in likelihood inference and multivariate statistics including the development of skew normal distributions.

Education and career

Azzalini was born in Milan and received his '' laurea'' in statistics and economics from the

University of Padua The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from B ...

in 1975. He carried out his military service for a year before working as a research assistant at the

. In 1978, Azzalini moved to the UK and studied at the

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

, where he received his MSc and PhD, both in statistics, in 1979 and 1981, respectively. His PhD supervisor was David Cox. Azzalini returned to

Padua Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...

to take on a researcher position in 1981 and became a professor at the

in 1986 and remained there since. Azzalini is a fellow of the

Royal Statistical Society The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is an established statistical society. It has three main roles: a British learned society for statistics, a professional body for statisticians and a charity which promotes statistics for the public good. ...

, a member of the

Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability The Bernoulli Society is a professional association which aims to further the progress of probability and mathematical statistics, founded as part of the International Statistical Institute in 1975. It is named after the Bernoulli family of mathema ...

and served as the editor of the Bernoulli News in 2000. In 2011, a workshop was held at the

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (''PUC or UC Chile'') ( es, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) is one of the six Catholic Universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical universities i ...

to honor Azzalini's contribution to the development of the skew-normal distribution.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Azzalini, Adelchi 1951 births Living people Italian statisticians Academic staff of the University of Padua Alumni of Imperial College London University of Padua alumni Fellows of the Royal Statistical Society People from Milan Mathematical statisticians