Answer the following question: Facts: - residence: uk - prizes: mayhew 1976 -rrb- gold medal international mathematical olympiad guy medal -lrb- prize bronze , 1984 -rrb- -lrb- silver , 1997 -rrb- copss -lrb- presidents ' award -lrb- 1991 -rrb- 1974 -rrb- smith 's prize -lrb- - known for: density estimation , nonparametric regression , functional data analysis - footnotes: fellow of the royal society - thesis year: 1978 - work institutions: university of oxford - field: statistician - doctoral advisor: d. g. kendall - birth date: 22 february 1952 - thesis title: data analysis : some theory and practice - name: bernard silverman - nationality: british - image: bernard silverman.jpg - religion: anglican - alma mater: cambridge university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of bernard silverman .
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bernard walter silverman frs -lrb- born 22 february 1952 -rrb- is a british statistician and anglican priest .he was master of st peter 's college , oxford from 1 october 2003 to 31 december 2009 .he is a member of the statistics department at oxford university , and is also attached to the wellcome trust centre for human genetics , the smith school of enterprise and the environment , and the oxford-man institute of quantitative finance .he has been a member of the council of oxford university and of the council of the royal society .he was briefly president of the royal statistical society in january 2010 , a position from which he stood down upon announcement of his appointment as chief scientific advisor to the home office .