Dennis Lindley

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1944-03-21

Active to

2023-03-03

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

   · 1996 · cited 18,867x

2. The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

   · 1988 · cited 15,809x

3. Matrix Elasticity Directs Stem Cell Lineage Specification

   · 2006 · cited 12,524x

4. Self-Reports in Organizational Research: Problems and Prospects

   · 1986 · cited 12,088x

5. The Amyloid Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease: Progress and Problems on the Road to Therapeutics

   · 2002 · cited 11,624x

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Quotes

• “There are some things that you know to be true, and others that you know to be false; yet, despite this extensive knowledge that you have, there remain many things whose truth or falsity is not known to you. We say that you are uncertain about them. You are uncertain, to varying degrees, about everything in the future; much of the past is hidden from you; and there is a lot of the present about which you do not have full information. Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.”
• “Generally there is Stigler’s law of eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.”
• “Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty.”
• “It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.”
• “Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.”
• “There is much evidence that people are not rational, in the economist’s sense; nor do they take into account expectation, in the precise interpretation of that word. As a result economic theory often does not correspond with what happens in the market. Some would argue that we need descriptive economics. I would argue that all should be taught about probability, utility, and MEU (maximization of expected utility) and act accordingly.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Dennis

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Surbiton

Place of death

Somerset

Occupation

university teacher

Employer

University of Cambridge

Languages spoken

English language

Field of work

Bayesian inference

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