The Statistical Society of Australia (SSA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in

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. It was founded in 1962 to support and unify the work of Australian state statistical societies that were already in existence and had about 800 members in 2019. It has its own publishing arm, the Australian Statistical Publishing Association Inc. Its main publication is The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. The society currently has six state branches: Canberra, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. The SSA is an affiliated organisation of the

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. The Society awards a

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, the Pitman Medal, at most once annually. It recognizes outstanding achievement in, and contribution to, the discipline of

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. The Society runs the Australian Statistical Conference, which is held biennially over five days.

Recipients of the Pitman Medal

*1978 –

E. J. G. Pitman Edwin James George Pitman (29 October 1897 – 21 July 1993) was an Australian mathematician who made significant contributions to statistics and probability theory. In particular, he is remembered primarily as the originator of the Pitman per ...

*1980 –

H.O. Lancaster Henry Oliver "HOL" Lancaster AO FAA, "For service to mathematical sciences and to education" (1 February 1913, Sydney – 2 December 2001, Sydney), was an Australian mathematical statistician and Foundation Professor of Mathematical Statistic ...

*1982 – P. A. P. Moran *1986 – Edward J. Hannan *1988 –

Chris Heyde Christopher Charles Heyde AM (20 April 1939, in Sydney – 6 March 2008, in Canberra) was a prominent Australian statistician who did leading research in probability, stochastic processes and statistics. Heyde was a professor at Columbia Unive ...

*1990 – Peter Gavin Hall *1992 – A. James *1993 – E.J. Williams *1994 – J.M. Gani *1996 – W.J. Ewens *1998 – Eugene Seneta *2000 – G.N. Wilkinson *2002 –

Terry Speed Terence Paul "Terry" Speed (born 14 March 1943 in Victor Harbor, South Australia), FAA FRS is an Australian statistician. A senior principal research scientist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, he is known for his co ...

*2004 –

Adrian Baddeley Adrian John Baddeley (born May 25, 1955) is a statistical scientist working in the fields of spatial statistics,A. Baddeley, E. Rubak and R.Turner, "Spatial Point Patterns: Methodology and Applications with R", Chapman and Hall/CRC Press 2015. st ...

*2005 – J. Darroch *2006 – D.J. Daley *2008 –

John Robinson John Robinson may refer to: Academics *John Thomas Romney Robinson (1792–1882), Irish astronomer and physicist * John J. Robinson (1918–1996), historian and author of ''Born in Blood'' *John Talbot Robinson (1923–2001), paleontologist *John ...

*2010 – Geoffrey McLachlan *2012 – Alan Welsh *2013 – Matthew P Wand *2014 –

Noel Cressie Noel Andrew Cressie is an Australian and American statistician. He is Distinguished Professor and DirectorCentre for Environmental Informatics at the University of Wollongong in Wollongong (53 miles south of Sydney), Australia. Education ...

*2016 – Kerrie Mengersen *2018 – Louise Ryan *2021 –

Rob J. Hyndman Robin John Hyndman (born 2 May 1967) is an Australian statistician known for his work on forecasting and time series. He is Professor of Statistics at Monash University and was Editor-in-Chief of the ''International Journal of Forecasting'' f ...

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References

External links

Statistical Society of Australia

Pitman Medal

Facebook: Statistical Society of Australia

* ttp://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005061b.htm Encyclopedia of Australian Science: Statistical Society of Australia Professional associations based in Australia {{Australia-org-stub