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English and American statistician. West works primarily in the field of Bayesian statistics, with research contributions ranging from theory to applied research in areas including finance, commerce, macroeconomics, climatology, engineering, genomics and other areas of biology. Since 1999, West
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West has been a consultant with various companies, banks, government agencies and academic centres, co-founder of a biotech company, and board member of several financial and IT companies. West has also served the international statistics profession in founding roles and as a board member in a
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mixture models starting with a paper published in 1995. His research with molecular geneticists and clinical researchers involved developing predictive models for identifying types of breast cancer using gene expression data, contributing to the popularisation of
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Bild, Andrea H; Yao, Guang; Chang, Jeffrey T; Wang, Quanli; Potti, Anil; Chasse, Dawn; Joshi, Mary-Beth; Harpole, David; Lancaster, Johnathan M; Berchuck, Andrew; Olson Jr, John A; Marks, Jeffrey R; Dressman, Holly K; West, Mike; Nevins, Joseph R (2006).
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West has made significant contributions to
Bayesian theory and methods for time series analysis and forecasting. He has also conducted research on non-parametric Bayesian analysis with methodological and applied research that include implementations of
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West, Mike; Blanchette, Carrie; Dressman, Holly; Huang, Erich; Ishida, Seiichi; Spang, Rainer; Zuzan, Harry; Olson Jr, John A; Marks, Jeffrey R; Nevins, Joseph R (2001).
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has been the Arts & Sciences
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Statistical Association, NC Chapter Award for development of statistics and contributions to theory and practice
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in 1988, where he became the
Director of the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences (ISDS) from 1990 to 2001.
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West earned a BSc in mathematics in 1978, and then PhD in mathematics (Statistics) in 1982, from the
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Three-time winner of the
Mitchell Prize for applications of Bayesian analysis, 1994, 1997 and 2012
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Chair of the
American Statistical Association section on Bayesian Statistical Science in 2010.
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number of national and international centres and institutes as well as professional societies.
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Bruno de
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Zellner Medal, International
Society for Bayesian Analysis (inaugural award), 2014
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Time Series: Modeling, Computation & Inference. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press
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President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis in 2009–2010.
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Applied Bayesian Forecasting and Time Series Analysis, Chapman-Hall
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Bayesian Forecasting and Dynamic Models, Springer Verlag
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2021, 2nd edition, R. Prado, M.A.R. Ferreira and M. West
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Prado, Raquel; Ferreira, Marco AR; West, Mike (2021).
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Applied Bayesian Forecasting and Time Series Analysis
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