Peter Green (statistician)

Peter James Green
Peter James Green
Born	28 April 1950 (age 74); Solihull, England
Alma mater	University of Oxford; University of Sheffield
Known for	Reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo
Awards	Guy Medal (Bronze, 1987; Silver, 1999)
	Scientific career
Institutions	University of Bath; University of Bristol; University of Durham; University of Wisconsin–Madison; University of Technology, Sydney
Doctoral advisor	Douglas P. Kennedy
Website	www.bristol.ac.uk/maths/people/peter-j-green

Peter James Green, FRS (born 28 April 1950)^[1] is a British Bayesian statistician. He is emeritus Professor and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, and a professor at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is distinguished for his contributions to computational statistics, in particular his contributions to spatial statistics and semi-parametric regression models and also his development of reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo.

Education and career

Green was born in Solihull and attended Solihull School.^[1] He studied mathematics at Oxford University before moving to the University of Sheffield for postgraduate study, where he was awarded an MSc in probability and statistics and a PhD in applied probability.^[2]

In 2024, Green had publicly questioned the usefulness of specific evidence in relation to the case of Lucy Letby, who was convicted of the murder of a number of babies in her care, namely the staff rotas and blood samples from babies who had collapsed with low blood sugar.^[3] However lawyers for the affected families declared during the subsequent hospital inquiry into the neonatal deaths that he and others questioning the conviction "should be ashamed of themselves".^[4]

Honors and awards

Green was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003. He served as president of the Royal Statistical Society from 2001 to 2003,^[5] having previously been awarded its Guy Medal in both Bronze (1987) and Silver (1999).^[6] He held a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award from 2006 to 2011. He was president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for the year 2007.

He was editor of the journal Statistical Science for 2014–2016.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b Prof Peter Green at Debrett's People of Today. Accessed 2011-01-23.
^ "Prof Peter Green". University of Bristol. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39k44n8j1mo
^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c05j4dng9q0t?post=asset%3Af2e911fa-9535-4f56-b832-9ecf05d39854#post
^ Past Presidents Archived 2007-10-06 at the Wayback Machine. Royal Statistical Society. Accessed 2009-04-26.
^ Honours & Awards: Previous Recipients Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. Royal Statistical Society. Accessed 2009-04-26.

[debretts-1] Prof Peter Green at Debrett's People of Today. Accessed 2011-01-23.

[2] "Prof Peter Green". University of Bristol. Retrieved 13 June 2014.

[3] ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39k44n8j1mo

[4] ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c05j4dng9q0t?post=asset%3Af2e911fa-9535-4f56-b832-9ecf05d39854#post

[5] Past Presidents Archived 2007-10-06 at the Wayback Machine. Royal Statistical Society. Accessed 2009-04-26.

[6] Honours & Awards: Previous Recipients Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. Royal Statistical Society. Accessed 2009-04-26.

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21st century	2001–2003 Peter Green 2003–2005 Andy Grieve 2005–2007 Tim Holt 2008–2009 David Hand 2010–2010 Bernard Silverman (resigned Feb 2010; replaced pro tem by David Hand) 2011–2012 Valerie Isham 2013–2014 John Pullinger 2014–2016 Peter Diggle 2017–2018 David Spiegelhalter 2019– Deborah Ashby
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