David Firth (statistician)

David Firth (born c. 1958) is a British statistician specialising in social-science and biostatistical applications. Firth obtained his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1987 under the supervision of David Roxbee Cox.[1]

He was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver in 2012.

Professor Firth developed quasi-variance estimation, a statistical approach to overcome the reference category problem when estimating the effects of a categorical explanatory variable within a statistical model.[2]

References

  1. ↑ David Firth at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ Firth, David (2016-06-24). "1. Overcoming the Reference Category Problem in the Presentation of Statistical Models". Sociological Methodology. 33 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1111/j.0081-1750.2003.t01-1-00125.x.


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