Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith is a British statistician and Principal of Queen Mary, University of London. He is a proponent of Bayesian statistics and evidence-based practice. He is a former President of the Royal Statistical Society and led the team which produced the Smith Report on secondary mathematics education in the United Kingdom. He wrote an influential paper in 1990 which drew attention to the significance of the Gibbs sampler technique for Bayesian numerical integration problems. Smith was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and University College London where his PhD supervisor was Dennis Lindley.

External links

• Royal Society citation
• Professor Adrian Smith
• Making Mathematics Count (Smith report)

• Adrian F M Smith on the Portraits of Statisticians page.

British statisticians | UCL academics | Academics of Queen Mary, University of London | Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society