Steve Brooks (statistician)
Steve Brooks | |
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| Born | July 1970 |
| 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 |
Stephen Peter "Steve" Brooks is a British statistician. He is the Executive Director of Select Statistical Services Ltd, a statistical research consultancy company based in Exeter, and former professor of statistics at the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.
He received a degree in mathematics from Bristol University in 1991, and a master's degree in statistics from the University of Kent. He received his PhD at Cambridge; his supervisor was Gareth Roberts. Post-graduation he then returned to Bristol as a lecturer in the Statistics Group and then Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey. In 2000 Brooks returned to Cambridge first as a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. and then of Wolfson College.
He is a specialist in Markov chain Monte Carlo and applied statistical methods.
He is one of the founding directors of the National Centre for Statistical Ecology 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 in Exeter and the Director of the Exeter Initiative for Statistics and its Applications.