David J. Hand
Author · 7 books
David J. Hand is Senior Research Investigator and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College, London, and Chief Scientific Advisor to Winton Capital Management. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a recipient of the Guy Medal of the Royal Statistical Society. He has served (twice) as President of the Royal Statistical Society, and is on the Board of the UK Statistics Authority. He has published 300 scientific papers and 25 books: his next book, The Improbability Principle, is due out in February 2014. He has broad research interests in areas including classification, data mining, anomaly detection, and the foundations of statistics. His applications interests include psychology, physics, and the retail credit industry - he and his research group won the 2012 Credit Collections and Risk Award for Contributions to the Credit Industry. He was made OBE for services to research and innovation in 2013.
Series
Books
Measurement
A Very Short Introduction
2016
Statistics
A Very Short Introduction
2008
Dark Data
Why What You Don't Know Matters
2020
The Improbability Principle
Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
2014
Principles of Data Mining
2001
Statistics (Brief Insights)
2010
Het onwaarschijnlijkheidsprincipe
2014
