Nate Silver might be the most famous present day Bayesian statistician.
Nate Silver is probably the most famous present day statistician period.
Yes, but his Bayesian ideology makes him especially interesting for this community.
He doesn’t have a movie about him yet.
Is there some statistician who does who I’m missing a reference to here?
Whoever the Moneyball movie is based on.
Bill James. [edit] It looks like Moneyball is primarily about Billy Beane, who wasn’t a statistician himself, but a manager who used sabermetrics (pioneered by James and others).
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Nate Silver is probably the most famous present day statistician period.
Yes, but his Bayesian ideology makes him especially interesting for this community.
He doesn’t have a movie about him yet.
Is there some statistician who does who I’m missing a reference to here?
Whoever the Moneyball movie is based on.
Bill James. [edit] It looks like Moneyball is primarily about Billy Beane, who wasn’t a statistician himself, but a manager who used sabermetrics (pioneered by James and others).