Gareth Roberts (statistician)
Gareth Roberts | |
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| Born | Gareth Owen Roberts 1964 (age 61–62) |
| Alma mater | Jesus College, Oxford University of Warwick |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) |
| Institutions | University of Warwick University of Lancaster University of Cambridge University of Nottingham University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Some boundary hitting problems for diffusion processes (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Saul Jacka |
| Doctoral students | Steve Brooks |
| Website | www2 |
Gareth Owen Roberts FRS FLSW (born 1964) is a statistician and applied probabilist. He is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Director of the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology (CRiSM) at the University of Warwick. He is an established authority on the stability of Markov chains, especially applied to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) theory methodology for a wide range of latent statistical models with applications in spatial statistics, infectious disease epidemiology and finance.