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Bernard W. Silverman

Bernard W. Silverman

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Mathematics

D-Index
66
Citations
63542
World Ranking
345
National Ranking
19

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1997 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1991 - COPSS Presidents' Award

Overview

Bernard W. Silverman is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Mathematics and Medicine. Within these broad areas, Silverman's work is concentrated in the subfields of Statistics and Probability, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Sociology and Political Science, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects including Census and Population Estimation, Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference, Data-Driven Disease Surveillance, Sex Work and Related Issues, Game Theory and Voting Systems, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, and COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies.

Silverman has contributed to several recent papers, which include:

  • "Bootstrapping multiple systems estimates to account for model selection" (2023), published in Statistics and Computing
  • "Covid-19 and child criminal exploitation in the UK: implications of the pandemic for county lines" (2021), published in Trends in Organized Crime
  • "Multiple Systems Estimation for Sparse Capture Data: Inferential Challenges When There Are Nonoverlapping Lists" (2020), published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • "Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies" (2020), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

The scientist often collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors. Frequent collaborators include Lax Chan, Kyle Vincent, Robin N. Thompson, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, and Valerie Isham.

Silverman's work has appeared in various publication venues, with several recurring journals and repositories, such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Trends in Organized Crime
  • Statistics and Computing

Throughout their career, Bernard W. Silverman has been recognized with several awards. These include the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1991, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 1997, and election as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Density estimation for statistics and data analysis

    Bernard. W. Silverman

  • Functional Data Analysis

    James O. Ramsay;Bernard W. Silverman

  • Nonparametric regression and generalized linear models

    Peter J. Green;Bernard W. Silverman

  • Functional Data Analysis

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  • Applied Functional Data Analysis: Methods and Case Studies

    James O. Ramsay;Bernard W. Silverman

  • Nonparametric Regression and Generalized Linear Models: A Roughness Penalty Approach.

    D. J. Best;P. J. Green;B. W. Silverman

  • Functional Data Analysis

    Eiji Muraki;J. O. Ramsay;B. W. Silverman

  • Some Aspects of the Spline Smoothing Approach to Non-Parametric Regression Curve Fitting

    B. W. Silverman

  • The Stationary Wavelet Transform and some Statistical Applications

    G. P. Nason;B. W. Silverman

  • Using Kernel Density Estimates to Investigate Multimodality

    B. W. Silverman

  • Wavelet threshold estimators for data with correlated noise

    Iain M. Johnstone;Bernard W. Silverman

  • Estimating the mean and covariance structure nonparametrically when the data are curves

    John A. Rice;B. W. Silverman

  • Wavelet thresholding via a Bayesian approach

    Felix Abramovich;Theofanis Sapatinas;B.W. Silverman

  • FLEXIBLE PARSIMONIOUS SMOOTHING AND ADDITIVE MODELING

    Jerome H. Friedman;Bernard W. Silverman

  • Spline Smoothing: The Equivalent Variable Kernel Method

    B. W. Silverman

  • Weak and strong uniform consistency of kernel regression estimates

    Y. P. Mack;B. W. Silverman

  • Needles and straw in haystacks: Empirical Bayes estimates of possibly sparse sequences

    Iain M. Johnstone;Bernard W. Silverman

  • Weak and Strong Uniform Consistency of the Kernel Estimate of a Density and its Derivatives

    Bernard W. Silverman

  • Methods for Analysing Spatial Processes of Several Types of Points

    H. W. Lotwick;B. W. Silverman

  • Smoothed functional principal components analysis by choice of norm

    Bernard W. Silverman

  • Empirical Bayes selection of wavelet thresholds

    Iain M. Johnstone;Bernard W. Silverman

Frequent Co-Authors

James O. Ramsay
James O. Ramsay McGill University
Iain M. Johnstone
Iain M. Johnstone Stanford University
Peter Donnelly
Peter Donnelly University of Oxford
Peter J. Diggle
Peter J. Diggle Lancaster University
Jeremy K. Nicholson
Jeremy K. Nicholson Murdoch University
Jerome H. Friedman
Jerome H. Friedman Stanford University
Christl A. Donnelly
Christl A. Donnelly University of Oxford
Elaine Holmes
Elaine Holmes Imperial College London
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London

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