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

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and

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. He is a noted

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and known for introducing the concept of reference priors. Bernardo was born in

Valencia, Spain Valencia ( , ), formally València (), is the capital of the Province of Valencia, province and Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia (r ...

. He received a PhD in mathematics from the

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in 1974, and a second PhD in statistics from

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in 1976. Since 1978, he has been a professor of statistics at the

. Bernardo is a

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, accessed 2016-10-22. and was founding co-president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (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 Mathematical statisticians {{statistician-stub