José-Miguel Bernardo

José-Miguel Bernardo (born in Valencia, Spain) is a Spanish mathematician and statistician. A noted Bayesian, he is currently a professor of Statistics at the University of Valencia.

He is a founding co-President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), 1992-1994. His areas of research interest are:

• The nature and scope of Bayesian Statistics
• The relationship between information theory and statistics
• The foundations and the derivation of nonsubjective, reference priors
• The foundations of decision theory
• Bayesian hypothesis testing and model criticism
• Point and region intrinsic estimation
• Probabilistic classification
• Applications of Bayesian Statistics and decision theory to medical problems (automatic diagnosis)
• Political analysis (election forecasting, sample surveys),
• Industrial problems (quality assurance).

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.

Internet

• José Bernardo’s Home page
• José Miguel Bernardo at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

See also

• Bayesian probability