2007 Society Medals & Prizes

The Guy Medal in Silver for 2007 is awarded to Professor Howell Tong for his many important contributions to time series analysis over a distinguished career, and in particular for his fundamental and highly influential paper "Threshold autoregression, limit cycles and cyclical data," read to the Society in 1980, which paved the way for a major body of work in non-linear time series modeling.

Approximate likelihood methods for estimating local recombination rates" (with P. Donnelly) in 2002 and "Exact and Efficient Likelihood-based inference for Discretely Observed Diffusion Processes" (with A. Beskos, O. Papaspiliopoulos and G.O. Roberts)in 2006; for the following papers published in the Society's journals, Fearnhead, P. and Clifford, P. (2003) 'Online inference for hidden Markov models', JRSS series B, No. 65, 887-899, and Fearnhead, P. and Meligkotsidou, L. (2004) 'Exact filtering for partially-observed continuous-time models', JRSS series B, No. 66, 771-789; and also taking into account his crucial methodological advances in the estimation of genetic recombination rates, his important contributions to sequential Monte Carlo methods and his wider significant work in computational statistics.

The Bradford Hill medal for 2007 is awarded to Professor Scott Zeger, for his outstanding contributions to the development and application of statistical methods in the public health sciences, including: the development, with his colleague Kung-Yee Liang, of the highly influential method of generalized estimating equations for analysing longitudinal data; the application, with his colleagues John Samet and Francesca Dominici, of state-of-the-art statistical methods to the investigation of the links between air pollution and human health.

The Greenfield Industrial Medal for 2007 is awarded to Jim (SJ) Morrison for his dedicated commitment to the promotion of statistical methods in education and practice in engineering and manufacturing, and for his fundamental contribution to quality improvement through his seminal work on minimizing variation transmission

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