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 [http://www.bayesian.org/ 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. [http://www.uv.es/bernardo/Bioestadistica.pdf pdf]
*Bernardo, J. M. and Smith, A. F. M. (1994). Bayesian Theory. Chichester: Wiley. [http://www.bayesian.org/resources/books/bernardosmith.html html]

Internet

* [http://www.uv.es/bernardo/ José Bernardo’s Home page]

ee also

*Bayesian probability