Peter Green (statistician)
Peter James Green | |
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| Born | 28 April 1950 |
| 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 |
Peter James Green, FRS (born 28 April 1950) 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.