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Professor Ray Chambers to lead top international survey statisticians... |
Statistician appointed president-elect of international association
Professor Ray Chambers from the Faculty of Informatics has been appointed President-Elect of the top international professional body for people working in sample surveys and censuses.
The Professor of Statistical Methodology who is sponsored by the Australian Bureau of Statistics will take over the reins as President of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) for a two-year term from 2011-2013.
The IASS has strong membership from academic statisticians and statisticians working in government and industry. The organisation also takes a special interest in raising the profile of survey methods in developing countries.
Professor Chambers is currently Associate Editor for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), the Journal of Official Statistics and the Annals of Statistics.
This week he returned from overseas where he was involved in four conferences including as invited speaker at the annual conference of the Statistical Society of Canada held in Vancouver as well as giving invited presentations at two other conferences and a colloquium in Germany, Switzerland and Spain.
Professor Chambers was formerly the founding Director of the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute at the University of Southampton in the UK. Southampton is regarded as the premier European university in survey statistics.
Earlier, he began his statistical career with the Australian Bureau of Statistics in Canberra before moving to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics (now the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Research Economics) and then on to the Australian National University.
He joined UOW’s School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics in 2006 and his appointment has helped build one of UOW’s research strengths – the Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology. The centre has been successful in recent times in securing hotly-contested Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grants.