Anthony Davison

EPFL SB MATH STAT
MA B1 423 (Bâtiment MA)
Station 8
1015 Lausanne

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Fields of expertise

Statistical theory and methods. 
 
Applications, particularly to environmental and biological data.

Education

BA

Mathematics

Oxford

1980

MSc

Statistics

Imperial College London

1981

PhD

Statistics

Imperial College London

1984


Awards

Laurea Honoris Causa in Statistical Science

University of Padova

2009

Guy Medal in Silver

Royal Statistical Society

2015

Medallion Lecture

Institute of Mathematical Statistics

2018

Mitchell Lecturer

University of Glasgow

2012

Francqui Chair

Hasselt University

2011

Publications

Infoscience publications

Teaching & PhD

Teaching

Mathematics

Courses

Probability and statistics

The course is an introduction to probability and statistics for physicists.

Risk and environmental sustainability

This course gives an introduction to the assessment of risk with a particular focus on modelling of rare events, which can have huge environmental impacts.

Regression methods

General graduate course on regression methods

Statistical inference

Inference from the particular to the general based on probability models is central to the statistical method. This course gives a graduate-level account of the main ideas of statistical inference.