Having Bayes’ Theorem in the Scientific Toolkit: Experiences and Reflections

Paul Gustafson is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the 2008 recipient of the CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics, and the 2020 Gold Medallist of the Statistical Society of Canada. His research interests include Bayesian methods, causal inference, evidence synthesis, measurement error, and partial identification. He has authored two books: Measurement Error and Misclassification in Statistics and Epidemiology: Impact and Bayesian Adjustments (2004), and Bayesian Inference for Partially Identified Models: Exploring the Limits of Limited Data (2015). He was the Editor in Chief of the Canadian Journal of Statistics (2007-2009), and is currently the Special Editor for Statistical Methods for the journal Epidemiology. At UBC, Paul served as a founding co-director of the Master of Data Science program, and he has just embarked upon a second term as Head of the Department of Statistics.