David John Bartholomew FBA (born 6 August 1931) is a British

United Kingdom

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 statistician

Statistician

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 who was President of the Royal Statistical Society

Royal Statistical Society

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 2002–2003.

In 1955 he married Marian Elsie Lake, and they have two daughters.

Career

He was educated at University College London

University College London

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 where he earned his BSc and PhD.

• Scientist, National Coal Board
  National Coal Board
  The National Coal Board was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the mines on "vesting day", 1 January 1947...
  
  , 1955–57;
• Lecturer in Statistics, University of Keele, 1957–60
• Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1960–67
• Professor of Statistic, University of Kent
  University of Kent
  The University of Kent, previously the University of Kent at Canterbury, is a public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom...
  
  , 1967–73.
• Professor of Statistics London School of Economics
  London School of Economics
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  , 1973–96, then Emeritus (Pro-Director, 1988–91)
• President, Royal Statistical Society
  Royal Statistical Society
  The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London , though a perhaps unrelated London Statistical Society was in existence at least as early as 1824...
  
  , 1993–95 (Hon. Sec., 1976–82; Treas., 1989–93)
• Vice-President, Manpower Society, 1987–95
• Chairman, Science and Religion Forum, 1997–2000

He is a member of the Board of Governors of Inform, a Charity that provides factual information about religious movements

Publications

• with S.E. Finer and H.B. Berrington Backbench Opinion in the House of Commons, 1955-1959. Oxford: Pergamon Press;
• Stochastic Models for Social Processes, 1967, 3rd edn 1982;
• with E.E. Bassett, Let's Look at the Figures: the quantitative approach to human affairs, Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin books (Dutch translation, 1971).
• (jtly) Statistical Inference Under Order Restrictions
• 1972; (jtly) Statistical Techniques for Manpower Planning, 1979, 2nd edn 1991
• Mathematical Methods in Social Science, 1981
• God of Chance, 1984;
• Latent Variable Models and Factor Analysis, 1987, 2nd edn (jtly) 1999;
• Uncertain Belief, 1996;
• The Statistical Approach to Social Measurement, 1996;
• (jtly) The Analysis and Interpretation of Multivariate Data for Social Scientists, 2002, 2nd edn 2008;
• Measuring Intelligence: facts and fallacies, 2004
• Measurement (4 vols), 2006
• God, Chance and Purpose, Cambridge University Press 2008 ISBN 978-0521707084

Papers in statistical, theological and social science journals