David Clayton
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David George Clayton (born 13 June 1944), is a British
ISI highly cited researcher
placing him in the top 250 most cited scientists in the mathematics world over the last 20 years.
Career
Clayton has worked in theoretical and applied statistics, both
frequentist and Bayesian. With Norman Breslow he has published important work on generalized linear mixed models. Clayton was a pioneer in the application of MCMC methods to problems in biostatistics. More recently, he has worked in genetic epidemiology
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Clayton read
Natural Sciences at King's College, Cambridge and following this worked as a researcher in ergonomics and cybernetics. He then worked as a statistician at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the University of Leicester
and the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge before taking up his present position.
He was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver of the Royal Statistical Society in 1990 and, with Norman Breslow, the Snedecor Prize of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies of North America (COPSS) in 1995. He was a lead statistician for the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, a genome-wide association study.
References
- "David Clayton: Brief biography". Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Archived from the original on 19 November 2007. Retrieved 3 March 2008.
- Clayton, David and Michael Hills (1993) Statistical Models in Epidemiology Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-852221-5
- "ISI Highly Cited David George Clayton". Retrieved 19 August 2008.
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