Edward J. Hannan

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Edward J. Hannan
Personal details
Born29 January 1921
Died7 January 1994(1994-01-07) (aged 72)
Occupation Statistician

Edward James Hannan (29 January 1921 7 January 1994 [1] [2] ) was an Australian statistician who was the co-discoverer of the Hannan–Quinn information criterion. He studied at the University of Melbourne and completed a PhD at the Australian National University under the supervision of Patrick A. P. Moran. [3]

For the majority of his working life he was attached the Australian National University. He was Professor of Statistics in the Institute of Advanced Studies 1971-1986, Professor of Statistics in the School of General Studies 1959-1971, and Fellow in Statistics 1954-1958. [2]

His research was in the field of time series analysis, both in statistics and econometrics. He is the author of four books, [4] [5] [6] one [7] with Manfred Deistler.

The Statistical Society of Australia awarded him the Pitman Medal in recognition of his life's work. [8] 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. [9] [10]

Hannan had left school at the age of 15, becoming a bank clerk for Commonwealth Bank before entering the Australian Army in 1941 and seeing action as a lieutenant during the New Guinea campaign. [11] A full account of his life and work is contained in the Biographical Memoirs of the Australian Academy of Science. [12]

Hannan is the namesake of the Hannan Medal awarded by the Australian Academy of Science.

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  3. Edward J. Hannan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  5. Hannan, E.J. (1965). Group Representations and Applied Probability. Applied Probability Trust.
  6. Hannan, E.J. (1970). Multiple Time Series. Wiley.
  7. Hannan, E.J.; Deistler, M (1988). The Statistical Theory of Linear Systems. Wiley.
  8. Australian Journal of Statistics: Pitman Medal awarded to E.J. Hannan [ dead link ].
  9. Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal Archived November 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine , Australian Academy of Science, retrieved 2010-06-06.
  10. "Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal 1979: E.J. Hannan", Historical Records of Australian Science, 4 (2): 109, 1979, doi: 10.1071/HR9790420109 .
  11. Hannan, E. J. (1986). "Remembrance of Things Past". In Gani, J. (ed.). The Craft of Probabilistic Modelling. Applied Probability. Vol. 1. Springer. pp. 31–42. doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-8631-5_3. ISBN   0-387-96277-8.
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