# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-hand
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:50:54.812Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-hand"
name: "David Hand"
slug: "david-hand"
description: "David John Hand is a British statistician. His research interests include multivariate statistics, classification methods, pattern recognition, computational statistics and the foundations of statistics. He has written technical books on statistics, data mining, finance, classification methods, and measuring wellbeing, as well as science popularisation books including The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day; Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters; and Statistics: A Very Short Introduction. In 1991 he launched the journal Statistics and Computing."
tagline: "British statistician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brainwash_Festival_2015_-_David_Hand_(1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-06-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.j.hand"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump