The Statistical Society of Australia (SSA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in Australia. 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 International Statistical Institute. The Society awards a gold medal, the Pitman Medal, at most once annually. It recognizes outstanding achievement in, and contribution to, the discipline of statistics. The Society runs the Australian Statistical Conference, which is held biennially over five days.

Recipients of the Pitman Medal

*1978 – E. J. G. Pitman *1980 – H.O. Lancaster *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 ...

*1990 –

Peter Gavin Hall Peter Gavin Hall (20 November 1951 – 9 January 2016) was an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics. The American Statistical Association described him as one of the most influential and prolific theoretical ...

*1992 – A. James *1993 – E.J. Williams *1994 – J.M. Gani *1996 – W.J. Ewens *1998 –

Eugene Seneta Eugene Seneta is Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, known for his work in probability and non-negative matrices, applications and history. He is known for the variance gamma model in financial mathemat ...

*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 *2010 –

Geoffrey McLachlan Geoffrey John McLachlan FAA (born 3 October 1946) is an Australian researcher in computational statistics, machine learning and pattern recognition. McLachlan is best known for his work in classification and finite mixture models. He is the join ...

*2012 – Alan Welsh *2013 –

Matthew P Wand Matthew may refer to: * Matthew (given name) * Matthew (surname) * ''Matthew'' (ship), the replica of the ship sailed by John Cabot in 1497 * ''Matthew'' (album), a 2000 album by rapper Kool Keith * Matthew (elm cultivar), a cultivar of the Chi ...

*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 Kerrie Mengersen (born 1962) is an Australian statistician. Since 2016, she has been Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Queensland University of Technology in the Science and Engineering Faculty. She earned BA (Hons I) and PhD degrees in ...

*2018 –

Louise Ryan Louise Marie Ryan is an Australian biostatistician, a distinguished professor of statistics in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, president-elect of the International Biometric Society, and an editor-in-ch ...

*2021 – Rob J. Hyndman (source)

References

External links

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Pitman Medal

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