2006 Society Medals & Prizes

The Guy Medal in Silver for 2006 is awarded to Professor Michael Titterington for his paper read to the Society in 1981 on discrimination methods, which has been especially influential both on classification itself and far wider, in demonstrating the paradigmatic nature of statistical classification, and for his important contributions to many areas of statistics, including the analysis of mixtures, incomplete data, latent structure analysis, neural networks, pattern recognition and machine learning, statistical smoothing, medical statistics and the design of experiments.

The Guy Medal in Bronze for 2006 is awarded to Dr Matthew Stephens for his paper read to the Society on "Inference in molecular population genetics" and for his other major contributions to the field of statistical genetics.

The West Medal for 2006 is awarded to Professor Angela Dale for her many contributions to quantitative social science and, in particular, for her work in supporting the data needs of the Census users community.

An Honorary Fellowship is awarded to Professor Sir Iain Chalmers, in recognition of his influence on health care practice across the world by turning Archie Cochrane's ideas about randomised trials to evaluate health care, through the Cochrane Collaborative and the UK Cochrane Centre, into an international activity collecting, synthesising and publishing systematic evidence in relation to care interventions.

Further details on RSS Medals and Prizes are available on the Awards homepage.