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NZSA Honours

The NZSA recognizes contributions to the New Zealand statistical community through the Campbell Award and Life Membership of the Association. The NZSA hosts distinguished overseas statisticians as Visiting Lecturers.  The Executive has been considering a proposal to institute the honour of a Fellowship of the NZSA.

Campbell Award
The purpose of the award is to promote statistics within NZ and to recognise an individual's contribution to the promotion and development of statistics.

Life Membership
Honorary Life Membership honours persons with a long and distinguished record of service to the Association.

Visiting Lecturer
The New Zealand Statistical Association coordinates and provides some financial support for a tour of New Zealand universities by a distinguished overseas statistician.

Fellowship Proposal
Consideration of the proposal to institute the honour of a Fellowship of the NZSA has currently been deferred until other honours are operating smoothly.

 

RSNZ Awards

The Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand administers a suite of medals and awards, for some of which members of the NZSA will be eligible.  This year's closing date for nominations for all RSNZ Medals and Awards is 30 June 2008. Electronic copies of the information and application forms are available from awards@rsnz.org; copies are also available on the Society's website at http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/Site/funding/MedalsAwards/.

Among past recipients of RSNZ awards are:

  Professor Al Rae 1973 Fellow of the RSNZ
 
 
  Professor Peter Whittle 1981 Honorary Fellow of the RSNZ
 
 
  Professor David Vere-Jones 1982 Fellow of the RSNZ
 
 
  Professor Bryan Manly   Fellow of the RSNZ
 
 
  Professor Alastair Scott   Fellow of the RSNZ
 
 
  Professor George Seber   Fellow of the RSNZ
 
 
  Professor Bruce Weir 1998 Honorary Fellow of the RSNZ
 
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  Professor Shayle Searle 1999 Honorary Fellow of the RSNZ
 
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  Professor David Vere-Jones 1999 Rutherford Medal
(New Zealand Science and
Technology Gold Medal)
 
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  Professor Jeffrey Hunter 2003 New Zealand Science and
Technology Bronze Medal
 
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  Len Cook 2005 Companion of the RSNZ
 
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  Professor Chris Wild 2007 Fellow of the RSNZ
 
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  Professor Mick Roberts 2008 Fellow of the RSNZ  
  Professor Keith Worsley 2008 Honorary Fellow of the RSNZ  
  Ross Ihaka 2008 Pickering Medal report
         

International and National Recognition of NZSA Members

NZSA members, resident in New Zealand or overseas, have received recognition in various forms for their contributions to statistics. The list below is not exhaustive - please notify the webmaster of any additions or corrections.

Professor David Vere-Jones 1969 Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
Professor Al Rae 1977 McMeekan Award;
New Zealand Society of Animal Production

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Professor Peter Whittle 1978 Fellow of the Royal Society
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  Professor David Vere-Jones 1995 Henri Willem Methorst Medal;
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  Professor Bruce Weir 2003 O. Max Gardner Award;
U North Carolina
 
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  Professor Shayle Searle 2003 Honorary Doctorate;
Victoria University of Wellington
 
  Sheila Williams 2004 D.Sc.;
University of Otago
 
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Len Cook 2005 Commander of the British Empire
 
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  Professor Jeffrey Hunter 2005 D.Sc.;
Massey University
 
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  Professor Alastair Scott 2006 Waksberg Award;
American Statistical Association and the Statistical Society of Canada
 
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  Ken Dodds 2007 McMeekan Award;
New Zealand Society of Animal Production
 
 
  Professor Chris Wild 2009 Fellow of the American Statistical Association  
  Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman 2010 Statistical Computing and Graphics Award report  
  Paul Murrell 2010 Fellow of the American Statistical Association  

 

Conferences in Honour of NZSA Members

Professor David Vere-Jones 2001 Symposium, Victoria University of Wellington
 
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Professor Alastair Scott 2004 Complex sampling, retrospective sampling and missing data
(IASS Satellite Meeting, University of Auckland)
 
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Professor John Deely 2007 University of Canterbury
 
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Professor Chin-Diew Lai 2010 International Conference on Statistical Methodologies and Related Topics in conjunction with NZSA Annual Conference (Massey University)
 
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