Richard Tweedie

Richard Lewis Tweedie (22 August 1947 – 7 June 2001) was an Australian statistician.[1][2]

Richard Tweedie
Born(1947-08-22)22 August 1947
Leeton, New South Wales, Australia
Died7 June 2001(2001-06-07) (aged 53)
United States
NationalityAustralian
Alma materAustralian National University
University of Cambridge
Known forApplied probability
Markov chains
Statistical modelling
AwardsMember of the Bernoulli Society
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Statistics
InstitutionsBond University
Colorado State University
University of Minnesota
ThesisR-Theory and Truncation Algorithms for Markov Chains and Processes (1972)
Doctoral advisorDavid George Kendall

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]

Recognition

Tweedie was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1997.[7]

References
  1. 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.
  2. "Tweedie, R. L. (Richard Lewis) (1947-2001)". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  3. Tweedie, R. L. (1986). "In and Out of Applied Probability in Australia". The Craft of Probabilistic Modelling. Applied Probability. 1. Springer, New York, NY. pp. 291–308. doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-8631-5_19. ISBN 9781461386339.
  4. Hall, Peter (6 July 2001). "Richard Tweedie".
  5. Gelman, Andrew (2012). "Ethics and Statistics: Statistics for Cigarette Sellers". Chance. 25 (3): 43–46. doi:10.1080/09332480.2012.726563. S2CID 60267976.
  6. "Good Morning". Industry Documents Library. 19 November 1980. p. 5. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  7. "ASA Fellows list". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 22 November 2019.

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