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Introduction: David Blackwell . Julian Besag . Arnold Zellner . Benoit Mandelbrot and Hirotugu Akaike (late) . Alfred Kahn .
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Introduction: Xian posts his memories of Julian Besag, who is perhaps most famous for publishing the Hammersley-Clifford theorem (see here for some background). I met Besag in 1989 when I spoke at the University of Washington; also I have a memory of a conference in 1992 or 1993, I think it was, when he objected strongly to my use of the chi-squared test to check the fit of a Bayesian model. (In retrospect, I don’t think I presented my ideas clearly enough; some of the material in that talk ended up in this article with Meng and Stern.) I also recall a talk I gave in Seattle around 1996, when Besag commented that the models I was using for spatial analysis were pretty crude–a fair comment, actually. I don’t actually recall any of Besag’s lectures, but I read many of his papers. As Xian said, Besag did innovative and important work on spatial statistics, work that will be long used and remembered. He was in many ways ahead of his time and was a rarity in his generation of Bayesian statist
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