Peter Green (statistician)

Peter James Green
Born	28 April 1950 (1950-04-28) (age 61)^[1] Solihull, England^[1]
Institutions	University of Bath University of Bristol University of Durham
Alma mater	University of Oxford University of Sheffield
Doctoral advisor	Douglas Kennedy
Known for	Reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo
Notable awards	Guy Medal (1987,1999)

Peter Green FRS is a British Bayesian statistician. He holds a chair in statistics at Bristol University. 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.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003. He served as President of the Royal Statistical Society from 2001 to 2003,^[2] having previously been awarded its Guy Medal in both Bronze (1987) and Silver (1999).^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Prof Peter Green at Debrett's People of Today. Accessed 2011-01-23.
^ Past Presidents. Royal Statistical Society. Accessed 2009-04-26.
^ Honours & Awards: Previous Recipients. Royal Statistical Society. Accessed 2009-04-26.

External links

Peter Green's homepage. University of Bristol.
Green, Peter James at ISIHighlyCited.com

Academic offices
Preceded by Denise Lievesley	President of the Royal Statistical Society 2001–2003	Succeeded by Andy Grieve

Guy Medallists

Gold Medallists

Charles Booth (1892) · Robert Giffen (1894) · J. Athelstane Baines (1900) · Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1907) · Patrick G. Craigie (1908) · G. Udny Yule (1911) · T.H.C. Stevenson (1920) · A. William Flux (1930) · A.L. Bowley (1935) · Major Greenwood (1945) · R.A. Fisher (1946) · A. Bradford Hill (1953) · E.S. Pearson (1955) · Frank Yates (1960) · Harold Jeffreys (1962) · Jerzy Neyman (1966) · M.G. Kendall (1968) · M.S. Bartlett (1969) · Harald Cramér (1972) · David Cox (1973) · G.A. Barnard (1975) · Roy Allen (1978) · D.G. Kendall (1981) · Henry Daniels (1984) · Bernard Benjamin (1986) · Robin Plackett (1987) · Peter Armitage (1990) · George E. P. Box (1993) · Peter Whittle (1996) · Michael Healy (1999) · D.V. Lindley (2002) · John Nelder (2005) · James Durbin (2008) · C.R. Rao (2011)

Silver Medallists

John Glover (1893) · Augustus Sauerbeck (1894) · A.L. Bowley (1895) · F.J. Atkinson (1897) · C.S. Loch (1899) · Richard Crawford (1900) · Thomas A. Welton (1901) · R.H. Hooker (1902) · Yves Guyot (1903) · D.A. Thomas (1904) · R.H. Rew (1905) · W.H. Shaw (1906) · N.A. Humphreys (1907) · Edward Brabrook (1909) · G.H. Wood (1910) · R. Dudfield (1913) · S. Rowson (1914) · S.J. Chapman (1915) · J. Shield Nicholson (1918) · J.C. Stamp (1919) · A. William Flux (1921) · H.W. Macrosty (1927) · Ethel Newbold (1928) · H.E. Soper (1930) · J.H. Jones (1934) · E.C. Snow (1935) · R.G. Hawtrey (1936) · E.C. Ramsbottom (1938) · L. Isserlis (1939) · H. Leak (1940) · M.G. Kendall (1945) · H. Campion (1950) · F.A.A. Menzler (1951) · M.S. Bartlett (1952) · J.O. Irwin (1953) · L.H.C. Tippett (1954) · D.G. Kendall (1955) · Henry Daniels (1957) · G.A. Barnard (1958) · E.C. Fieller (1960) · D.R. Cox (1961) · P.V. Sukhatme (1962) · George E. P. Box (1964) · C.R. Rao (1965) · Peter Whittle (1966) · D.V. Lindley (1968) · Robin Plackett (1973) · James Durbin (1976) · John Nelder (1977) · Peter Armitage (1978) · Michael Healy (1979) · M. Stone (1980) · John Kingman (1981) · Henry Wynn (1982) · Julian Besag (1983) · J.C. Gittins (1984) · A. Bissell, W. Pridmore (1985) · Richard Peto (1986) · John Copas (1987) · J. Aitchison (1988) · F.P. Kelly (1989) · David Clayton (1990) · R.L. Smith (1991) · Robert Curnow (1992) · A.F.M. Smith (1993) · David Spiegelhalter (1994) · B.W. Silverman (1995) · Stephan Lauritzen (1996) · Peter Diggle (1997) · Harvey Goldstein (1998) · Peter Green (1999) · Walter Gilks (2000) · Philip Dawid (2001) · David Hand (2002) · Kanti Mardia (2003) · Peter Donnelly (2004) · Peter McCullagh (2005) · Michael Titterington (2006) · Howell Tong (2007) · Gareth Roberts (2008) · Sylvia Richardson (2009) · I.M. Johnstone (2010) · P.G. Hall (2011)

Bronze Medallists

William Gemmell Cochran (1936) · R.F. George (1938) · W.J. Jennett (1949) · Peter Armitage (1962) · James Durbin (1966) · F. Downton (1967) · Robin Plackett (1968) · M.C. Pike (1969) · P.G. Moore (1970) · D.J. Bartholomew (1971) · G.N. Wilkinson (1974) · A.F. Bissell (1975) · P.L. Goldsmith (1976) · A.F.M. Smith (1977) · Philip Dawid (1978) · T.M.F. Smith (1979) · A.J. Fox (1980) · S.J. Pocock (1982) · Peter McCullagh (1983) · Bernard Silverman (1984) · David Spiegelhalter (1985) · D.F. Hendry (1986) · Peter Green (1987) · S.C. Darby (1988) · S.M. Gore (1989) · Valerie Isham (1990) · M.G. Kenward (1991) · C. Jennison (1992) · J.A. Tawn (1993) · R.F.A. Poultney (1994) · I. Johnstone (1995) · J.N.S. Matthews (1996) · Gareth Roberts (1997) · D. Firth (1998) · P.W.F. Smith, J. Forster (1999) · J. Wakefield (2000) · Guy Nason (2001) · Geert Molenberghs (2002) · Peter Lynn (2003) · Nicola Best (2004) · Steve Brooks (2005) · Matthew Stephens (2006) · Paul Fearnhead (2007) · Fiona Steele (2008) · Chris Holmes (2009) · O. Papaspiliopoulos (2010) · N. Meinshausen (2011)

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Name	Green, Peter
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Date of birth	28 April 1950
Place of birth	Solihull, England
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