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Dennis Lindley

BIRTH DATE:  7/25/1923
DEATH DATE:  12/14/13
CRAFT:  Mathematics
NATIONALITY:  British
PROFESSION:  statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of bayesian statistics
TRAVELS:  Author of "Lindley's Paradox", a counterintuitive situation in statistics in which the Bayesian and frequentist approaches to a hypothesis testing problem give different results for certain choices of the prior distribution.
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