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John Aston

British statistician, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Home Office, and Professor of Statistics, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Person Human Q91907795

Facts

14 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[11]
Country of citizenship
United Kingdom[2]
Occupation
statistician
Employer
University of Cambridge[4]
Position held
president of the Royal Statistical Society[3]
Award received
Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the Royal Society[7][8]
Doctoral advisor
Roger N. Gunn, Keith J. Worsley[5][6]
Doctoral student
Jyh-Ying Michael Peng, Giorgos Minas, Christopher F. H. Nam, Yan Zhou, Nathaniel Shiers, Adam J Hall, Adam B Kashlak[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English[23]
Family name
Aston[19]
Given name
John, A., D.[20][21][22]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
Member of
Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, American Statistical Association[9][10]
🏷️ Also known as
en J.A.D. Aston en John A D Aston en John A.D. Aston en John Aston ru Астон, Джон ru Джон Астон
🔖 Identifiers · 13
ISNI
0000000495622485
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3770-9342
VIAF cluster ID
4615148705710637080006
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n2018181543
GND ID
1125039981
DDB person (GND) ID
1125039981
Described at URL
www.statslab.cam.ac.uk
Dimensions author ID
012340260407.34
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11f04nn20k
Gov.uk person ID
john-aston
MR Author ID
754257
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
165040
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ZbMATH author ID
aston.john-a-d

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Accurate autocorrelation modeling substantially improves fMRI reliability, A Functional Approach to Deconvolve Dynamic Neuroimaging Data, Connections with Robust PCA and the Role of Emergent Sparsity in Variational Autoencoder Models, Data Information in Contingency Tables: A Fallacy of Hierarchical Loglinear Models, Divide-and-Conquer With Sequential Monte Carlo, High dimensional efficiency with applications to change point tests, Linear Information Models: An Introduction, Recurrent Variational Autoencoders for Learning Nonlinear Generative Models in the Presence of Outliers +5 more
Affiliated with 4
University of Cambridge, Polytechnic University of Milan, Academia Sinica, Institute of Statistical Science Academia Sinica
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Summary

John Aston worked as a statistician[1].

Body

Education

Doctoral advisors include Roger N. Gunn[5], a researcher[24], b. 1970[25], of United Kingdom[26] and Keith J. Worsley[6], a statistician[27], 1951–2009[28], of United Kingdom[29], awarded the Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi[30].

Career and Affiliations

Doctoral students include Jyh-Ying Michael Peng[12]; Giorgos Minas[13], a statistician[31]; Christopher F. H. Nam[14]; Yan Zhou[15]; Nathaniel Shiers[16], a statistician[32]; and Adam J Hall[17].

Recognition

Awards received include Fellow of the American Statistical Association[7], a statistics award[33] and Fellow of the Royal Society[8], a fellowship award[34], in United Kingdom[35].

FAQs

What did John Aston do for work?

John Aston worked as statistician[1].

What awards did John Aston receive?

Honors received include Fellow of the American Statistical Association[7] and Fellow of the Royal Society[8].

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    Position held → president of the Royal Statistical Society
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