Julian Besag
Appearance
Julian Besag (1945-) is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. He was born in Loughborough in the United Kingdom
He has undertaken research on, among otherthings, spatial statistics (with applications to epidemiology), image analysis, applications of statistics to agricultural science and Bayesian inference (including Markov chain Monte Carlo).
Notable publications
- Besag, J.E., (1986) "On the Statistical Analysis of Dirty Pictures," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 48, 259–302.