Peter John Diggle, (born 24 February 1950, in Lancashire, England) is a British statistician.
[3] Previously, he has held positions at Newcastle University, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia.
[4] He matriculated at the University of Oxford and in 1973, gained his masters in statistics, by thesis "Contagion and Allied Processes" (M.Sc., 1973).
After completion of his masters, Diggle enrolled in a PhD programme at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he gained his doctorate in 1977 in statistics by thesis, with the research topic "Spatial Processes with Applications in Ecology".
Virtually everyone in the country who worked in spatial statistics (between 30 – 50 people) would attend these conferences in Newcastle.
[11] Professor Peter Diggle has authored a range of texts detailing methods in geostatistics.