Don Berry | |
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Nationality | American |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions |
University of Minnesota Duke University University of Texas |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Doctoral advisor |
Joseph B. Kadane Leonard J. Savage |
Doctoral students |
Ronald Christensen Murray Clayton Lurdes Inoue Steven MacEachern |
Donald Arthur Berry (born 1940) is a statistician and one of the proponents of Bayesian statistics. He was the chairman of the Department of Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1999-2010, where he played a role in the use of Bayesian methods to develop innovative, adaptive clinical trials. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He founded Berry Consultants, a statistical consulting group, with Scott Berry in 2000.