Silverman, B. W., 1952-
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- Author's Density estimation for statistics and data analysis, 1986:CIP t.p. (B.W. Silverman, School of mathematics, Univ. of Bath, U.K.) data sheet (b. 2/22/52)
- Nonparametric regression and generalized linear models, 1994:t.p. (B.W. Silverman; School of Mathematics, Univ. of Bristol, UK) pref. (Bernard Silverman)
Sir Bernard Walter Silverman, (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician and former Anglican clergyman. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009. He is a member of the Statistics Department at the University of Oxford, and has also been attached to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. He has been a member of the Council of the University of Oxford and of the Council of the Royal Society. He was briefly president of the Royal Statistical Society in January 2010, a position from which he stood down upon announcement of his appointment as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office. He was awarded a knighthood in the 2018 New Years Honours List, "For public service and services to Science".
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