Richard Tweedie
| Richard Tweedie | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 22, 1947 Leeton, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died |
June 7, 2001 (aged 53) United States |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater |
Australian National University University of Cambridge |
| Known for |
Applied probability Markov chains Statistical modelling |
| Awards | Member of the Bernoulli Society since 1980 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields |
Mathematics Statistics |
| Institutions |
Bond University Colorado State University University of Minnesota |
| Thesis | R-Theory and Truncation Algorithms for Markov Chains and Processes (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | David George Kendall |
Richard Lewis Tweedie (22 August 1947 in Leeton, New South Wales, Australia–7 June 2001 in the United States) was an Australian statistician.[1][2]
Career
Tweedie joined the company Siromath in 1981 as general manager, and became its managing director in 1983.[3] He taught at Bond University as Foundation Dean and Foundation Professor of Information Sciences from 1987 to 1992, after which he joined the faculty of Colorado State University (CSU). He was chair of CSU's Department of Statistics from 1992 to 1997, and left CSU to join the faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1999. When he died in 2001 of a heart attack, he was the chair of the University of Minnesota's Division of Biostatistics.[4]
Tobacco industry consulting
Tweedie did some work as a tobacco industry consultant during his career.[5] This work included presenting his analysis of studies on the health effects of passive smoking at a 1980 meeting, to which he had been invited by the industry.[6]
References
- ↑ Dunsmuir, William T. M.; Meyn, Sean P.; Roberts, Gareth O. (2003). "Richard Tweedie, 1947-2001". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician). 52 (1): 102–104. JSTOR 4128174.
- ↑ "Tweedie, R. L. (Richard Lewis) (1947-2001)". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
- ↑ Tweedie, R. L. (1986). "In and Out of Applied Probability in Australia". Applied Probability. Springer, New York, NY: 291–308. doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-8631-5_19. ISBN 9781461386339.
- ↑ Hall, Peter (2001-07-06). "Richard Tweedie".
- ↑ Gelman, Andrew. "Ethics and Statistics: Statistics for Cigarette Sellers". CHANCE. 25 (3): 43–46. doi:10.1080/09332480.2012.726563.
- ↑ "Good Morning". Industry Documents Library. 1980-11-19. p. 5. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
Further reading
- Dunsmuir, William T. M.; Meyn, Sean P.; Roberts, Gareth (June 2002). "Obituary: Richard Lewis Tweedie". Journal of Applied Probability. 39 (2): 441–454. doi:10.1017/S0021900200022671. ISSN 0021-9002.
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