David V. Hinkley

David Victor Hinkley (10 September 1944 – 11 January 2019) was a statistician known for his research in statistical models and inference and for his graduate-level books.

Early life David Victor Hinkley was born on 10 September 1944 in Kent, England. He studied mathematics and statistics at the University of Birmingham. He earned a PhD from the University of London (now Imperial College London) in 1969 under the supervision of David R. Cox.

Career While working on his PhD, Hinkley was appointed to a junior lectureship at the University of London.

In 1974 Hinkley and Cox published Theoretical Statistics, a textbook on statistical inference. Hinkley was an expert on bootstrapping, a method of computational statistics, which is largely due to Efron. With Anthony C. Davison, Hinkley wrote a widely used textbook on the subject.

Personal life and death Hinkley married Betty Blake in 1970. Together, they had two children, Sara and Steve.

Selected publications Cox, D. R.; Hinkley, D. V. (1974). Theoretical Statistics. New York: John Wiley & Sons/Halsted Press. Davison, A. C.; Hinkley, D. V. (2006). Bootstrap Methods and their Application (8th printing). Cambridge: Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics.