José-Miguel Bernardo

José-Miguel Bernardo Herranz
Born	(1950-03-12) 12 March 1950 (age 74) Valencia, Francoist Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Alma mater	University of Valencia (Ph.D.) University College London (Ph.D.)
Known for	reference prior
Scientific career
Fields	Bayesian statistics
Institutions	University of Valencia
Thesis	The Use of Information in the Design and Analysis of Scientific Experimentation (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Dennis Lindley
Doctoral students	M. J. Bayarri

José-Miguel Bernardo Herranz (born 12 March 1950)[1] is a Spanish mathematician and statistician. He is a noted Bayesian and known for introducing the concept of reference priors.[2][3]

Bernardo was born in Valencia, Spain. He received a PhD in mathematics from the University of Valencia in 1974, and a second PhD in statistics from University College London in 1976.[1] Since 1978, he has been a professor of statistics at the University of Valencia.[4]

Bernardo is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association[5] and was founding co-president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA).[1]

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

1. Bernardo, José-Miguel (2009). "Bayesian Statistics". In Viertl, Reinhard (ed.). Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems – Probability and Statistics Volume II: Probabilistic Models and Methods; Foundations of Statistics. Oxford, England: EOLSS Publishers. pp. 345–406. ISBN 9781848260535.
2. Bernardo, Jose M. (1979). "Reference Posterior Distributions for Bayesian Inference". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Methodological). 41 (2): 113–128. doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1979.tb01066.x.
3. Berger, James O.; Bernardo, José M.; Sun, Dongchu (2009-04-01). "The formal definition of reference priors". The Annals of Statistics. 37 (2). doi:10.1214/07-AOS587. ISSN 0090-5364.
4. "Talks". iactalks.iac.es.
5. View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-10-22.

External links

• Bernardo's homepage on website of the University of Valencia
• José Miguel Bernardo at the Mathematics Genealogy Project