David Victor Hinkley (10 September 1944 – 11 January 2019) was a statistician known for his research in statistical models and inference and for his graduate-level books.
[1][4] While working on his PhD, Hinkley was appointed to a junior lectureship at the University of London.
[1] Hinkley also collaborated with Bradley Efron, in particular on writing a paper on maximizing the conditional likelihood function and on using the observed Fisher information.
[6] Hinkley was an expert on bootstrapping, a method of computational statistics, which is largely due to Efron.
He was also an honorary fellow at the University of Edinburgh and a vice president of the Royal Statistical Society.