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Peter Green (statistician)

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British statistician

Peter James Green
Born	(1950-04-28)28 April 1950 (age 75) 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 BritishBayesian statistician. He is emeritus Professor of Statistics at theUniversity of Bristol. Until 2024, he was a Professorial Research Fellow at Bristol, and until 2022 a distinguished professor at theUniversity of Technology, Sydney. He is distinguished for his contributions tocomputational statistics, in particular his contributions tospatial statistics and semi-parametricregression models and also his development ofreversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo.

Education and career

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Green was born inSolihull and attendedSolihull School.^[1] He studied mathematics atOxford University before moving to theUniversity 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 ofLucy 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

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

He is currently Chair of the Trustees of the journalBiometrika, and was editor of the journalStatistical Science for 2014–2016.^{[citation needed]}

References

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^^a ^bProf Peter Green atDebrett'sPeople of Today. Accessed 2011-01-23.
^"Prof Peter Green". University of Bristol. Retrieved13 June 2014.
^"Lucy Letby: Questions grow in debate on killer's convictions".BBC News. 29 August 2024. Retrieved29 January 2025.
^"Lucy Letby hospital inquiry: Anyone questioning Lucy Letby's guilt 'should be ashamed', lawyer tells inquiry".BBC News. Retrieved29 January 2025.
^Past Presidents Archived 2007-10-06 at theWayback Machine. Royal Statistical Society. Accessed 2009-04-26.
^Honours & Awards: Previous Recipients Archived 2007-09-28 at theWayback Machine. Royal Statistical Society. Accessed 2009-04-26.

v t e Fellows of theRoyal Society electedin 2003
Fellows	John D. Barrow Jocelyn Bell Burnell Mariann Bienz William Bonfield John Milton Brown Mark Wayne Chase Michael Coey Kay Davies Anthony Dickinson Eleanor Dodson Peter Dornan Ann Dowling Jeffery Errington Roger Fletcher Roderick Flower Melvyn Greaves Peter Green Keith Gull Peter Holland James Hough Malcolm Irving Jonathan D. G. Jones Michael L. Klein Alan MacDiarmid Stephen Mann Richard John Nelmes Stephen O'Rahilly Bridget Ogilvie Tim Palmer John Papaloizou Venki Ramakrishnan Elizabeth Robertson John Gair Robson John Donald Scott Richard H. Sibson Leon Simon Geoffrey L. Smith Adrian Sutton Karen Vousden Andrew Watson Fiona Watt Peter N. T. Wells
Foreign	Denis Baylor Fotis Kafatos Klaus von Klitzing Donald Knuth José Sarukhán Valentine Telegdi

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20th century	1902–1904Patrick George Craigie 1904–1905Sir Francis Powell, Bt 1905–1906The Earl of Onslow 1906–1907Richard Martin 1907–1909Sir Charles Dilke, Bt 1909–1910Jervoise Athelstane Baines 1910–1912Lord George Hamilton 1912–1914Francis Ysidro Edgeworth 1914–1915The Lord Welby 1915–1916Lord George Hamilton 1916–1918Bernard Mallet,Registrar General 1918–1920Herbert Samuel 1920–1922R. Henry Rew 1922–1924The Lord Emmott 1924–1926Udny Yule 1926–1928The Viscount D'Abernon 1928–1930A. William Flux 1930–1932Sir Josiah Stamp 1932–1934The Lord Meston 1934–1936Major Greenwood 1936–1938The Lord Kennet 1938–1940Arthur Lyon Bowley 1940–1941Henry William Macrosty 1941Hector Leak 1941–1943William Beveridge 1943–1945Ernest Charles Snow 1945–1947The Lord Woolton 1947–1949David Heron 1949–1950Sir Geoffrey Heyworth 1950–1952Austin Bradford Hill 1952–1954Ronald Fisher 1954–1955The Lord Piercy 1955–1957Egon Pearson 1957–1959Harry Campion 1959–1960Hugh Beaver 1960–1962Maurice Kendall 1962–1964Joseph Oscar Irwin 1964–1965Sir Paul Chambers 1965–1966L. H. C. Tippett 1966–1967M. S. Bartlett 1967–1968Frank Yates 1968–1969Arthur Cockfield 1969–1970R. G. D. Allen 1970–1971Bernard Benjamin 1971–1972George Alfred Barnard 1972–1973Harold Wilson 1973–1974D. J. Finney 1974–1975Henry Daniels 1975–1977Stella Cunliffe 1977–1978Henry Wynn 1978–1980Sir Claus Moser 1980–1982David Cox 1982–1984Peter Armitage 1984–1985Walter Bodmer 1985–1986John Nelder 1986–1987James Durbin 1987–1989John Kingman 1989–1991Peter G. Moore 1991–1993T. M. F. Smith 1993–1995D. J. Bartholomew 1995–1997Adrian Smith 1997–1999Robert Nicholas Curnow 1999–2001Denise Lievesley
21st century	2001–2003Peter Green 2003–2005Andy Grieve 2005–2007Tim Holt 2008–2009David Hand 2010–2010Bernard Silverman (resigned Feb 2010; replacedpro tem by David Hand) 2011–2012Valerie Isham 2013–2014John Pullinger 2014–2016Peter Diggle 2017–2018David Spiegelhalter 2019–Deborah Ashby
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