Peter Diggle
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".[11] Professor Peter Diggle has authored a range of texts detailing methods in geostatistics.