Person
Tweedie, Richard Lewis (1947 - 2001)
- Born
- 22 August 1947
Leeton, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 7 June 2001
- Occupation
- Statistician and Mathematician
Summary
Richard Tweedie was General Manager and later Managing Director of SIROMATH, a private mathematical and statistical consulting company part-owned by CSIRO. His outstanding career in the fields of applied probability modelling and statistical methodology was cut short on June 7, 2001 when he died from a heart attack at the age of 53.
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Chronology
- 1968
- Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), Australian National University in Canberra
- 1969
- Education - Master of Arts (MA), Australian National University
- 1972
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Cambridge, UK
- 1981 - 1987
- Career position - Managing Director of SIROMATH Pty Ltd
- 1986
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), Australian National University
- 1987 - 1991
- Career position - Dean of the School of Information and Computing Sciences and Foundation Professor of Information Sciences at Bond University, Queensland
- 1991 - 1998
- Career position - Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University, USA
- 1992 - 1997
- Career position - Chairman of Colorado State University
- 1999 - 2001
- Career position - Head of the Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, USA
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Dunsmuir, William T.M.; Meyn, Sean P.; Roberts, Gareth, 'Memorial Article: Richard Lewis Tweedie, August 22, 1947 - June 7, 2001.', Journal of Applied Probability, 39 (2) (2002), 441-454. http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/statistics/files/preprint-2002-06.pdf#search=%22Richard%20Lewis%20Tweedie%22. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q47362349. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/35136982. Details
- 'Tweedie, R L (19470822-20010607)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1164584. Details
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Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 5 March 2018