Peter Green (statistician)
{{Short description|British statistician}}
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|work_institutions = University of Bath
University of Bristol
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University of Technology, Sydney
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University of Sheffield
|doctoral_advisor = Douglas P. Kennedy
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|known_for = Reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo
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Peter James Green, FRS (born 28 April 1950)[http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/23238/Peter%20James+GREEN.aspx Prof Peter Green] at Debrett's People of Today. Accessed 2011-01-23. is a British Bayesian statistician. He is emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Bristol. Until 2024, he was a Professorial Research Fellow at Bristol, and until 2022 a distinguished 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. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/people/faculty/mapjg/|title=Prof Peter Green|publisher=University of Bristol|access-date=13 June 2014}}
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.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-29 |title=Lucy Letby: Questions grow in debate on killer's convictions |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39k44n8j1mo |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}} 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".{{Cite web |title=Lucy Letby hospital inquiry: Anyone questioning Lucy Letby’s guilt ‘should be ashamed’, lawyer tells inquiry |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c05j4dng9q0t?post=asset:f2e911fa-9535-4f56-b832-9ecf05d39854#post |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
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,[http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=2862 Past Presidents] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006013415/http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=2862 |date=2007-10-06 }}. Royal Statistical Society. Accessed 2009-04-26. having previously been awarded its Guy Medal in both Bronze (1987) and Silver (1999).[http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=1733 Honours & Awards: Previous Recipients] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928070820/http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=1733 |date=2007-09-28 }}. Royal Statistical Society. Accessed 2009-04-26. 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 is currently Chair of the Trustees of the journal Biometrika, and was editor of the journal Statistical Science for 2014–2016.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}
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