Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith FRS is a British statistician and Principal of Queen Mary, University of London. He is a proponent of Bayesian statistics and evidence-based practice. He is a former President of the Royal Statistical Society and led the team which produced the Smith Report on secondary mathematics education in the United Kingdom. He wrote an influential paper in 1990 along with Alan Gelfand (statistician), which drew attention to the significance of the Gibbs sampler technique for Bayesian numerical integration problems. Smith was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and University College London where his PhD supervisor was Dennis Lindley. The premises of the Royal Society in London (first four properties only). ... Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) (until 2000 Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London and still called that in its charter [1] and occasionally still abbreviated to QMW) is the fourth largest College of the University of London. ... Bayesian inference is statistical inference in which probabilities are interpreted not as frequencies or proportions or the like, but rather as degrees of belief. ... The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK. Founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London, it became the Royal Statistical Society in 1887. ... In mathematics and physics, Gibbs sampling is an algorithm to generate a sequence of samples from the joint probability distribution of two or more random variables. ... Numerical Integration with the Monte Carlo method: Nodes are random equally distributed. ... Full name Selwyn College Motto ΑΝΔΡΙΖΕΣΘΕ Quit ye like men Named after George Augustus Selwyn Previous names - Established 1882 Sister College(s) Keble College Master Prof. ... University College London, commonly known as UCL, or simply UC is one of the colleges that makes up the University of London. ... Dennis Victor Lindley born 25 July 1923 is a noted British statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics. ...

His FRS citation included his diverse contributions to Bayesian statistics. His monographs are the most comprehensive available and his work has had a major impact on the development of monitoring tools for clinicians. Bayesian inference is statistical inference in which probabilities are interpreted not as frequencies or proportions or the like, but rather as degrees of belief. ...

References

A.E. Gelfand and A.F.M. Smith. "Sampling-Based Approaches to Calculating Marginal Densities". J. American Statistical Association, 85:398-409, 1990.

External links

• Royal Society citation
• Professor Adrian Smith
• Making Mathematics Count (Smith report)

There is a photograph at

• Adrian F M Smith on the Portraits of Statisticians page.