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further invalidated the testimony by showing that the data had been collected to support the conviction of de Berk. After a campaign in which Gill helped, a retrial was ordered and de Berk was found not guilty; she received a public apology from the Dutch government, which also began negotiating financial compensation.
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De Berk was sentenced in the Netherlands to life imprisonment in 2003, after a legal psychologist gave testimony that there was great likelihood that de Berk committed a string of murders. Gill and other professional statisticians showed this statistical testimony to be fallacious. Continued scrutiny
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is innocent, and in a 2020 paper said the case "deserves fresh study". Gill states that his original involvement in campaigning for nurses stemmed from his wife encouraging him to get involved in the de Berk case, recounting her saying "They’re using statistics; you should get involved, do something
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Gill has said that he was "not much of an activist" as a student, but now feels guilty about not speaking up more at the time about perceived injustices, saying that this is partly because of an incident when working as a statistician in the 1970s when he helped on an experiment that severed the
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front legs of rats to investigate whether it would lead to the reshaping of their skulls. Gill said that this incident has stayed with him, as "what upset me most is that I didn’t have the strength of character to refuse to do that job".
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Benjamin Geen's applications for a retrial have been rejected and in 2013 and 2015 Gill and other statisticians asked the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to look into his case. The appeals were unsuccessful.
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Gill has lobbied for retrials for nurses whose criminal convictions were based in part on statistical evidence, including
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Andersen, Per Kragh; Borgan, Ørnulf; Gill, Richard D.; Keiding, Niels (1993).
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Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences
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Statistics as both a purely mathematical activity and an applied science
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on statistical issues in investigation of suspected medical misconduct.
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at CWI in 1983. In 1988, Gill moved to the Department of Mathematics of
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Gill's challenge of statistical evidence played a role in securing
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During his career Gill has supervised 24 Ph.D. students including
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Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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From killer nurses to quantum entanglement, and back (Part 1)
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In 2022 Gill contributed to a peer reviewed report from the
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Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research
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VVSOR - Vereniging voor Statistiek en Operations Research
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Andersen, Per K.; Borgan, Ornulf; Gill, Richard D.;
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Richard Gill Distinguished Lorentz Fellow 2010–2011
106: 92: 75: 65: 57: 34: 271:Gill became a citizen of the Netherlands in 1996. 748:"Statistical Issues in Serial Killer Nurse Cases" 303:'s acquittal on murder charges in Italy in 2021. 179:, which was supervised by Jacobus Oosterhoff and 1036:. Royal Statistical Society. 26 September 2022 650: 648: 621:Statistical models based on counting processes 383:Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes 331:Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 231:Statistical models based on counting processes 903:(in Dutch). 29 September 2007. Archived from 8: 1157:Richard Gill's homepage at Leiden University 557: 555: 1128:, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. 447: 445: 443: 441: 248:, where he held the chair in mathematical 31: 846: 792: 790: 528: 526: 524: 522: 520: 422: 385:. Springer Science & Business Media. 437: 317:Since the conviction of another nurse, 240:Gill became head of the Department of 159:and statistician, Gill has researched 1228:Alumni of the University of Cambridge 1004:O'Grady, Cathleen (19 January 2023), 533:O'Grady, Cathleen (19 January 2023). 504: 502: 500: 7: 1198:Academic staff of Utrecht University 1193:British emigrants to the Netherlands 1263:20th-century British mathematicians 1258:21st-century British mathematicians 1248:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni 1223:Academic staff of Leiden University 1055:Steafel, Eleanor (24 August 2023). 978:Devlin, Hannah (15 February 2015). 818:"Statistics: conviction by numbers" 1253:British mathematical statisticians 816:Buchanan, Mark (18 January 2007). 563:"Richard Gill appointed professor" 453:"Short biography: Richard D. Gill" 223:Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica 217:In 1974 Gill was appointed at the 177:Censoring and Stochastic Integrals 25: 1188:21st-century Dutch mathematicians 1183:20th-century Dutch mathematicians 774:Gill, Richard (14 January 2020), 689:Selected Works of Peter J. Bickel 233:, by Andersen, Borgan, Gill, and 351: 333:. He is a past president of the 171:Gill studied mathematics at the 42: 921:. 14 April 2010. Archived from 797:Hawkes, Nigel (10 April 2010). 693:Springer Science+Business Media 194:, which awarded the doctorate. 18:Richard D. Gill (mathematician) 1268:British civil rights activists 1238:British operations researchers 783:, Leiden University, p. 7 746:Gill, Richard (13 June 2021). 1: 513:Mathematics Genealogy Project 1243:Wrongful conviction advocacy 1218:Dutch operations researchers 1126:Distinguished Lorentz Fellow 952:Reid, Mark (19 April 2022). 1233:People from Redhill, Surrey 1144:. Accessed 23 January 2010. 606:Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde 403:; Gill, Richard D. 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Richard D. Gill (mathematician)

Oberwolfach
University of Cambridge
Utrecht University
Leiden University
Sara van de Geer
Linda van der Gaag
Jan Bergstra
Mark van der Laan
Peter Bickel
Netherlands
probability theorist
counting processes
University of Cambridge
Carel Scheffer
nl
Vrije Universiteit
Sara van de Geer
Mark van der Laan
Mathematical Centre
Amsterdam
Keiding
Mathematical Statistics
Utrecht University
stochastics
Sara van de Geer
Mark van der Laan
Peter Bickel
Leiden University

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