Matthew Stephens - Home Page
I am an Associate Professor in Statistics at the University of Washington. My general interests include Bayesian and computational statistics, particularly when applied to problems in population genetics. Specific interests (as of this writing, Sept 2003) include:
- estimating haplotypes from population genotype data (for which I distribute a software package PHASE).
- developing statistical models for patterns of linkage disequilibrium across multiple loci, and using these patterns to identify recombination hotspots (see related software).
- spatial modelling of allele frequency variation.
Some of my publications and preprints are available on-line here.
Brief biography
I arrived in Seattle in September 2000. Before that I was a Wellcome Trust Junior Research Fellow in the Mathematical Genetics Group at the University of Oxford.I also studied for my D.Phil. (Oxford-speak for Ph.D.) in Oxford, with Professor Brian Ripley. My thesis on "Bayesian Methods for Mixtures of Normal Distributions", and related software are available here.
Contact information
Address:Department of Statistics, Box 354322, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-4322, USA
Telephone: 206 543-4302
Fax: 206 685-7419
Email: stephens@stat.washington.edu