Biographical entry Tweedie, Richard Lewis (1947 - 2001)

Summary

Richard Lewis 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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Events

1968

Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed at the Australian National University in Canberra

1969

Education - Master of Arts (MA) completed at Australian National University

1972

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Cambridge, UK

1981 - 1987

Career position - Managing Director of SIROMATH Pty Ltd

1986

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the 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 at the 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.', J. Appl. Probab., vol. 39, no. 2, 2002, pp. 441-454. Also available at http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/statistics/files/preprint-2002-06.pdf#search=%22Richard%20Lewis%20Tweedie%22. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Tweedie, R L', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1164584. Details