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Steve Brooks | |
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| Born | July 1970[citation needed] |
| Alma mater | University of Bristol University of Kent University of Cambridge |
| Awards | Guy Medal(Bronze, 2005) Philip Leverhulme Prize RSS Research Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational and Applied Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Bristol University of Surrey University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Gareth Roberts[1] |
Stephen Peter "Steve" Brooks is a British statistician. He is the Executive Director ofSelect Statistical Services Ltd,[2] a statistical research consultancy company based inExeter, and former professor of statistics at theStatistical Laboratory of theUniversity of Cambridge.[3]
He received a degree in mathematics fromBristol University in 1991, and a master's degree in statistics from theUniversity of Kent. He received his PhD at Cambridge; his supervisor wasGareth Roberts. Post-graduation he then returned to Bristol as a lecturer in the Statistics Group and then Senior Lecturer at theUniversity of Surrey. In 2000 Brooks returned to Cambridge first as a fellow ofKing's College, Cambridge.[4] and then ofWolfson College.[5]
He is a specialist inMarkov chain Monte Carlo and applied statistical methods.
He is one of the founding directors[6] of the National Centre for Statistical Ecology[7] 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 inExeter and the Director of the Exeter Initiative for Statistics and its Applications[8]
