Thomas H. Leonard

Thomas Hoskyns Leonard (born 1948) is a British statistician. He obtained a doctorate in Statistics at the University of London and worked at the University of Warwick and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, before taking up the Chair of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh.

Thomas H. Leonard
Born	1948 Devon, UK
Alma mater	Imperial College London University College London
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	University of Warwick (1972–1980) University of Wisconsin-Madison (1979–1996) University of Edinburgh (1995–2001)
Doctoral advisor	Dennis Lindley

In 1972, Leonard worked at the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick.[1] During Leonard's tenure(1980-1995) in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,[2][3][4] he worked on improving the Bayesian components of both the teaching and research programs, alongside Kam Wah Tsui and Michael Newton.

Leonard retired in 2001.

Leonard has published on the Bayesian approach to categorical data analysis, as well as on function smoothing and prior informative density estimation, conditional Laplacian approximations for marginal inference and prediction, and the statistical modelling of log covariance matrices. He has also worked on the applications of Bayesian methodology in geophysics, medicine, and psychometrics. He was one of the founders, in 1992, of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, alongside Arnold Zellner and Gordon Kaufman,[5].

Leonard is the co-author of Bayesian Methods: An analysis for Statisticians and Interdisciplinary Researchers with John S. J. Hsu[6][7][8]

At the University of Edinburgh Leonard collaborated with Ian Main, Orestis Papasouliotis and others on a publication in Geophysics[9]