José-Miguel Bernardo Herranz (born 12 March 1950) is a Spanish

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

and

statistician A statistician is a person who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may wor ...

. A noted

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, since 1978 he has been a professor of statistics at the

University of Valencia The University of Valencia ( ca-valencia, Universitat de València ; also known as UV) is a public research university located in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is one of the oldest surviving universities in Spain, and the oldest in the Vale ...

. Bernardo was born in

Valencia, Spain Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area also ...

. He received a PhD in mathematics from the University of Valencia in 1974, and a second PhD in statistics from

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in 1976. He is a

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accessed 2016-10-22. and was founding co-president of the

International Society for Bayesian Analysis The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) is a society with the goal of promoting Bayesian analysis for solving problems in the sciences and government. It was formally incorporated as a not for profit corporation by economist Arnold ...

(ISBA).

Bibliography

*Bernardo, J. M. (1981). ''Bioestadística: Una Perspectiva Bayesiana''. Barcelona: Vicens-Vives
pdf
*Bernardo, J. M. and Smith, A. F. M. (1994). ''Bayesian Theory''. Chichester: Wiley.

References

External links

Bernardo's homepage
on website of the University of Valencia * Living people 1950 births 20th-century Spanish mathematicians Bayesian statisticians Fellows of the American Statistical Association Spanish statisticians 21st-century Spanish mathematicians {{statistician-stub