Steve Brooks (statistician)

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| birth_date = July 1970{{cn|date=May 2025}}

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| fields = Computational and Applied Statistics

| workplaces = University of Bristol
University of Surrey
University of Cambridge

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University of Kent
University of Cambridge

| doctoral_advisor = Gareth Roberts{{MathGenealogy|id=70043}}

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Stephen Peter "Steve" Brooks is a British statistician. He is the Executive Director of Select Statistical Services Ltd,{{cite web |url=http://www.select-statistics.co.uk/steve-brooks |title= Steve Brooks, Select Executive Director |work=Select Statistical Services Limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140117013751/http://www.select-statistics.co.uk/steve-brooks |archive-date=17 January 2014 |access-date=14 July 2014 }} a statistical research consultancy company based in Exeter, and former professor of statistics at the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/1999-2000/weekly/5808/8.html|title=Cambridge University Reporter: Elections and Appointments, May 2000}}

He received a degree in mathematics from Bristol University in 1991, and a master's degree in statistics from the University of Kent. He received his PhD at Cambridge; his supervisor was Gareth Roberts. Post-graduation he then returned to Bristol as a lecturer in the Statistics Group and then Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey. In 2000 Brooks returned to Cambridge first as a fellow of King's College, Cambridge.{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2001-02/special/03/14.html|title=Fellows of King's College|date=1 October 2001|access-date=20 December 2010|publisher=Cambridge University|work=Cambridge University Reporter}} and then of Wolfson College.{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2008-09/special/03/31.html|title=Fellows of Wolfson College|date=2 October 2008|access-date=30 April 2009|publisher=Cambridge University|work=Cambridge University Reporter}}

He is a specialist in Markov chain Monte Carlo and applied statistical methods.

He is one of the founding directors{{cite web| url=http://www.ncse.org.uk/documents/reports/annualreports/NCSE_Interim_Review.pdf| title=NCSE Interim Review Report, 2007| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206062926/http://www.ncse.org.uk/documents/reports/annualreports/NCSE_Interim_Review.pdf| archive-date=6 February 2011| df=dmy-all}} of the National Centre for Statistical Ecology{{cite web| url= http://www.ncse.org.uk/ | title= National Centre for Statistical Ecology Home Page}} which was set up in 2005.

He left Cambridge in 2006 to become Director of Research for ATASS Sports and is now executive director of Select Statistical Services Ltd a statistical consultancy firm based in Exeter and the Director of the Exeter Initiative for Statistics and its Applications{{cite web | url=http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/research/mathematics/eisa/ | title= ExIStA Home Page}}