Thomas
Hoskyns Leonard: e-mail
leonardthomas70@googlemail.com
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR: Thomas
Hoskyns Leonard (the Bayesian
statistician Tom Leonard) is
a well-published, retired Professor
of Statistics who
has taught at the Universities of Warwick, Wisconsin-Madison and
Edinburgh and is best known
for his treatise A
Personal History of Bayesian Statistics, which
was named John Wiley's hot article of the week during February 2014,
and for Bayesian
Methods, An Analysis for Statisticians and
Interdisciplinary Researchers
(with John Hsu, Cambridge University Press, 1999), one
of his two advanced textbooks.
In April 2014,
Statslife, an online
publication of the Royal
Statistical Society,
published an illustrated
version of Dr. Leonard's
invited talk
to the Society about
Bayesian
history, and John
Wiley published an interview with him subtitled The Life of
a Bayesian Boy in
Statistics Views during May
2014. He
is a publicly
active
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and Founding Fellow of the
International Society for
Bayesian Analysis (ISBA).
In 2012 and 2013, Dr. Leonard
self-published two novels on his website, entitled Grand
Schemes on Qinsatorix
and In the Shadows of Calton Hill. As
a co-founder with the
Scottish poets Scott Forster and James L.S. Carter
of the Edinburgh All-Comers Writers Club, he has composed, since
2011, about eighty poems and
written a collection
of short stories, as well as
encouraging a number of successful writers and poets.
He enjoys performance poetry
and sometimes reads his poems to the Blind Poetics group
in Edinburgh.
Dr. Leonard is also a public
health campaigner, and the
administrator of the Facebook group
Mental Health Discussions Edinburgh which
boasts over
1000 members worldwide.
His blog averages over 16000
views a month, and contains
over 500 posts addressing
many diverse socio-political,
scientific, and spiritual issues.
A very active international
Chess.com player with
a rating of about 1880, he
debates social and
political issues
as a founder of the
forthcoming, secular
'Portico Social Advocacy Group' which is centred in
his church
in Edinburgh's New Town.
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