Peter Green (statistician)

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Peter James Green
Born (1950-04-28) 28 April 1950 (age 73)
University of Technology, Sydney
Doctoral advisorDouglas P. Kennedy
Websitewww.bristol.ac.uk/maths/people/peter-j-green

Peter James Green,

reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo
.

Education and career

Green was born in

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]

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,[3] having previously been awarded its Guy Medal in both Bronze (1987) and Silver (1999).[4] 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

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ Past Presidents Archived 2007-10-06 at the Wayback Machine. Royal Statistical Society. Accessed 2009-04-26.
  4. ^ Honours & Awards: Previous Recipients Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. Royal Statistical Society. Accessed 2009-04-26.