Statistical Society of Australia

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.^[1] 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 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 2004 – Adrian Baddeley 2005 – J. Darroch 2006 – D.J. Daley 2008 – John Robinson 2010 – Geoffrey McLachlan 2012 – Alan Welsh 2013 – Matthew P Wand 2014 – Noel Cressie 2016 – Kerrie Mengersen 2018 – Louise Ryan 2021 – Rob J. Hyndman

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