Professor Terence Paul Speed, or Terry Speed (born 14 March 1943), is an Australia

Australia

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n statistician

Statistics

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, known for his contributions to the analysis of variance

Analysis of variance

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 and bioinformatics

Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...

, and in particular to the analysis of microarrays data.

He obtained a PhD

PHD

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 from Monash University

Monash University

Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....

 in 1968, and he currently head of the Bioinformatics division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research is Australia's oldest medical research institute.In 2011, the institute is home to more than 650 researchers who are working to understand, prevent and treat diseases including blood, breast and ovarian cancers; inflammatory diseases such as...

, in Melbourne

Melbourne

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 (Australia). Previously, he was sharing his time between this position and the department of statistics of the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 (USA).

He was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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 in 2004. In 2002, he received the Pitman

E. J. G. Pitman

Edwin James George Pitman was an Australian mathematician who made a significant contribution to statistics and probability theory...

 medal. In 2009 he was awarded a prestigious NHMRC Australia Fellowship.

He was also an expert witness

Expert witness

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 at the trial for the O. J. Simpson murder case

O. J. Simpson murder case

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, as well as an expert witness in the Imanishi-Kari case an affair of alleged scientific misconduct

Scientific misconduct

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 which involved biologist David Baltimore

David Baltimore

David Baltimore is an American biologist, university administrator, and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2006, and is currently the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech...

.

External links

• Bioinformatics division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.