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Biography
Alan is the E.J. Hannan Professor of Statistics and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Statistical Association. He received the Moran Medal (1990) and the E.J. Hannan Medal (2019) from the Australian Academy of Science, the Pitman Medal (2012) from the Statistical Society of Australia, the E.A. (Alf) Cornish Award (2017) and Honorary Life Membership (2018) from the International Biometric Society. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics from 2012-2015 and was a Co-Editor of Biometrics from 2020-2022.
Research Interests
Statistical Inference, Statistical Modelling, Mixed Models, Robustness,
Nonparametric and semiparametric methods, Analysis of Sample Surveys, Ecological Monitoring.
Education/Academic qualification
Statistics, PhD, Australian National University
… → 1984
Mathematical Statistics, BSc (Hons), University of Sydney
… → 1981
Research student supervision
- Registered to supervise
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