David Balding

David Balding is an Australian mathematical statistician and Professor in Statistical Genetics at Imperial College London. He was educated at the University of Newcastle, Australia and the University of Oxford, and is an editor of the Handbook of Statistical Genetics. He is a protégé of Peter Donnelly.

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Balding's research interests lie in the application of mathematics and statistics to problems in genetics, in particular he is interested in statistical inference for medical and forensic purposes.

He has written a book Weight-of-Evidence for Forensic DNA Profiles.

See also

• Balding-Nichols model