Matthew Stephens (statistician)
{{Short description|British statistician and geneticist}}
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Matthew Stephens {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}} (born 1970) is a Bayesian statistician and professor in the departments of human genetics and statistics at the University of Chicago. He is known for the Li and Stephens model as an efficient coalescent.
Education
Stephens has a PhD from Magdalen College, Oxford University where his advisor was Brian D. Ripley.{{Cite web|url=http://stephenslab.uchicago.edu/publications.html#theses|title=Stephens Lab|last=Stephens|first=Matthew|website=stephenslab.uchicago.edu|access-date=2017-12-10}} He then went on to work with Peter Donnelly as a postdoctoral researcher.
Career
Stephens conducted postdoctoral research with Peter Donnelly at the University of Oxford. It was there that he developed the Structure computer program, along with Jonathan Pritchard, which is used for determining population structure and estimating individual admixture.{{Cite journal|last=Novembre|first=John|date=2016-10-01|title=Pritchard, Stephens, and Donnelly on Population Structure|url=http://www.genetics.org/content/204/2/391|journal=Genetics|language=en|volume=204|issue=2|pages=391–393|doi=10.1534/genetics.116.195164|issn=0016-6731|pmid=27729489|pmc=5068833}} He then went on to develop the influential Li and Stephens model as an efficient model for linkage disequilibrium.{{Cite journal|last=Song|first=Yun S.|date=2016-07-01|title=Na Li and Matthew Stephens on Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium|url=http://www.genetics.org/content/203/3/1005|journal=Genetics|language=en|volume=203|issue=3|pages=1005–1006|doi=10.1534/genetics.116.191817|issn=0016-6731|pmid=27384022|pmc=4937133}}
Awards
Stephens was awarded the Guy Medal (bronze) in 2006.{{cite web|url=http://www.rss.org.uk/site/cms/contentviewarticle.asp?article=1074 |title=The Royal Statistical Society - Guy Medal in Bronze |publisher=www.rss.org.uk |accessdate=2010-12-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317044927/http://www.rss.org.uk/site/cms/contentviewarticle.asp?article=1074 |archivedate=2012-03-17 }} He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.{{Cite web |title=Matthew Stephens |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/matthew-stephens-36238/ |access-date=2023-05-25 |website=royalsociety.org}}
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