Anthony Davison
Expertise
Applications, particularly to environmental and biological data.
Mission
Education
BA
| Mathematics1980 – 1980 Oxford
MSc
| Statistics1981 – 1981 Imperial College London
PhD
| Statistics1984 – 1984 Imperial College London
Awards
Guy Medal in Silver
Royal Statistical Society
2015
Medallion Lecture
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
2018
Laurea Honoris Causa in Statistical Science
University of Padova
2009
Francqui Chair
Hasselt University
2011
Mitchell Lecturer
University of Glasgow
2012
Fellow
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1999
Fellow
American Statistical Association
2002
Elected member
International Statistical Institute
1991
Saw Swee Hock Visiting Professor
University of Hong Kong
2017
Selected publications
Statistical Models
Davison, A. C.
Published in Cambridge University Press, x 728 pages, 2003 in
Bootstrap Methods and their Application
Davison, A. C. and Hinkley, D. V.
Published in Cambridge University Press, x 582 pages, 1997 in
Celebrating Statistics: Papers in Honour of Sir David Cox on his 80th Birthday
Davison, A. C., Dodge, Y. and Wermuth, N. (eds)
Published in Oxford University Press, 2005 in
Models for exceedances over high thresholds (with Discussion)
Davison, A. C. and Smith, R. L.
Published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series B, 52, 1990 in
Resampling-based variance estimation for labour force surveys
Canty, A. J. and Davison, A. C.
Published in The Statistician, 48, 1999 in
Biometrika Centenary: Theory and general methodology
Davison, A. C.
Published in Biometrika, 88, 2001 in
Recent developments in bootstrap methodology
Davison, A. C., Hinkley, D. V. and Young, G. A.
Published in Statistical Science, 18, 2003 in
Posterior probability intervals in Bayesian wavelet estimation
Semadeni, C., Davison, A. C. and Hinkley, D. V.
Published in Biometrika, 91, 2004 in
Generalized additive modelling of sample extremes
Chavez-Demoulin, V. and Davison, A. C.
Published in Applied Statistics, 54, 2005 in
A point process approach to value-at-risk estimation
Chavez-Demoulin, V., Davison, A. C. and McNeil, A. J.
Published in Quantitative Finance 5, 2005 in
Bootstrap diagnostics and remedies
Canty, A. J., Davison, A. C., Hinkley, D. V. and Ventura, V.
Published in Canadian Journal of Statistics 34, 2006. in
Improved likelihood inference for discrete data
Davison, A. C., Fraser, D. A. S., and Reid, N.
Published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series B, 68, 2006 in
Statistical Modelling of Spatial Extremes
A. C. Davison, S. Padoan and M. Ribatet
Published in Statistical Science in 2012
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Infoscience
Teaching & PhD
Past EPFL PhD Students
Valérie Chavez, Alessandra Brazzale, Armin Röhrl, Diego Kuonen, Marc-Olivier Boldi, Christophe Osinski, Ingrid Ricard, Mária Süveges, Vahid Partovi Nia, Mehdi Gholam, Evelyn Zenklusen Mutter, Raphaël Huser, Alix Corinne Josiane Colette Zollinger, Emeric Thibaud, Linda Frossard, Thomas Lugrin, Raphaël de Fondeville, Yousra El Bachir, Hélène Ruffieux, Léo Belzile, Claudio Semadeni, Jonathan Koh Boon Han, Soumaya Elkantassi, Ophelia Miralles, Sonia Alouini, Timmy Rong Tian Tse, Krali Mario