Edward J. Hannan
Edward James Hannan FAA (1921 – 7 January 1994)[1] was an Australian statistician who is the co-discoverer of the Hannan–Quinn information criterion. He studied at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Patrick A. P. Moran.[2] For the majority of his working life, he was attached the Australian National University. The Statistical Society of Australia awarded him the Pitman Medal in recognition of his life's work.[3] In 1970 he was elected to the Australian Academy of Science. He also won the 1979 Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal of the Australian Academy of Science.[4][5]
Hannan is the namesake of the Hannan Medal awarded by the Australian Academy of Science.
References
- ↑ "EDWARD J. HANNAN, 1921–1994". Journal of Time Series Analysis 15 (6): 563. 1994. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9892.1994.tb00212.x.
- ↑ Edward J. Hannan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Australian Journal of Statistics: Pitman Medal awarded to E.J. Hannan.
- ↑ Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science, retrieved 2010-06-06.
- ↑ "Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal 1979: E.J. Hannan", Historical Records of Australian Science 4 (2), 1979: 109, doi:10.1071/HR9790420109.