Boys (6 April 1960 – 5 March 2019) was a statistician best known for his contributions to the Bayesian inference, hidden Markov models and stochastic systems.
[1] In 1986, Boys published his first paper “Screening in a Normal Model” which was co-written with Ian Dunsmore in Series B of the RSS’s journal.
[1] Around the end of the 1990s, Richard started to steer towards statistics in biology and was particularly interested in Markov models in segmenting DNA sequences.
[1] His most cited paper “Bayesian inference for a stochastic kinetic model” was featured in the scientific journal Statistics in Computing in 2008.
The paper outlined how exact Bayesian inference may be possible for the parameters of a general range of biochemical network models, which helped create a new field of research in computational biology.