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Mike Titterington | |
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| Born | Donald Michael Titterington 1945 |
| Died | 2023[2] |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh University of Cambridge |
| Awards | Guy Medal (Silver) (2006) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Glasgow |
| Thesis | The Adaptive Optimisation of Yield (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Whittle[1] |
Mike Titterington (1945–2023) was a Scottish statistician known for the breadth of his work. Perhaps best known for his work on mixture models[3] and neural networks,[4] he also published in such areas as optimal design, smoothing techniques, image analysis, spatial statistics and hidden Markov models.[2]
Titterington was educated at the High School of Stirling before going on to the University of Edinburgh (obtaining a first class degree) then a Diploma in Mathematical Statistics (with distinction) from the University of Cambridge.[5] Under Peter Whittle at Cambridge he continued to study for a PhD on stochastic nonlinear control.[1]
Post-PhD, Titterington spent his entire career working at the Department of Statistics at the University of Glasgow: first research assistant, then lecturer. He was appointed as a professor in 1982 and chair of statistics in 1988 before retiring in 2011.[6] During this time he was editor of several prominent statistics journals, including the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (1986-89) and Biometrika (1996–2007).[7] During this time he edited (with David Cox) "Biometrika: One Hundred Years", collecting notable papers from the journal.[8] He also was heavily involved in the Royal Statistical Society (roles including honorary secretary and chair of the research section and vice president).
The Guy Medal in Silver was awarded to Titterington in 2006 for his 1981 paper[9] on discrimination methods and "for his important contributions to many areas of statistics, including the analysis of mixtures, incomplete data, latent structure analysis, neural networks, pattern recognition and machine learning, statistical smoothing, medical statistics and the design of experiments."[10]
He was a good friend of Peter Hall, for whom he wrote an obituary in the Royal Statistical Society and American Statistical Association magazine Significance.[11] The pair authored 21 papers together.[12]
Titterington passed away in April 2023 after suffering for many years from Parkinson's disease.[6]
Honours
[edit]- Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in (1986)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1991)[13]
- Member of the International Statistical Institute (1991)[14]
- Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Silver (2006)
- Mahalanobis Lecturer by the Indian Statistical Institute (2007)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Mike Titterington at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Memorial service for Donald Michael (Mike) Titterington, 1945-2023". Royal Statistical Society News. Royal Statistical Society. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ Titterington, D. M.; Smith, Adrian F. M.; Makov, U. E.; Smith, A. F. (1995). Statistical analysis of finite mixture distributions (Reprint ed.). Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 9780471907633. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ Kay, J. W.; Titterington, D. M., eds. (1999). Statistics and neural networks: advances at the interface (1. publ ed.). Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 9780198524229. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ Bowman, Adrian (22 December 2023). "Donald Michael Titterington, 1945–2023". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 186 (4): 894–895. doi:10.1093/jrsssa/qnad074.
- ^ a b Green, Peter J; Robert, Christian P. "Obituary: D.M. Titterington 1945–2023". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ "In remembrance". Biometrika. Oxford Academic. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ Titterington, D. M.; Cox, D. R., eds. (2001). Biometrika: One Hundred Years (1. ed.). Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198509936. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ Titterington, D. M.; Murray, G. D.; Murray, L. S.; Spiegelhalter, D. J.; Skene, A. M.; Habbema, J. D. F.; Gelpke, G. J. (1981). "Comparison of Discrimination Techniques Applied to a Complex Data Set of Head Injured Patients". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General). 144 (2): 145. doi:10.2307/2981918. JSTOR 2981918.
- ^ Holt, Tim (1 October 2006). "Report of the Council for the Session 2005–2006". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 169 (4): 913–1002. doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00445.x.
- ^ Titterington, Mike (1 April 2016). "Remembering Peter Gavin Hall". Significance. 13 (2): 48. doi:10.1111/j.1740-9713.2016.00905.x. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ "MathSciNet Search". MathSciNet. American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ "Professor Donald Titterington". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ "Our Members". International Statistical Institute. Retrieved 22 June 2025.