REMINDER
The deadline for submission of nominations for the Royal Statistical
Society medals and awards to be made in 2002 is Monday 24 September
2001.
An information pack on nominations for all awards and individual
nomination forms are available from the Society's website
www.rss.org.uk/about/honpack.html .
The Honours Committee would like to receive as broad a range of
nominations as possible to ensure that the awards are made to those who
best meet the criteria.
The criteria for the 2002 awards are as follows:
GUY MEDALS
Named after the distinguished statistician, William Guy FRS, the Guy
medals are intended to encourage the cultivation of statistics in their
scientific aspects, as well as to promote the application of numbers to
the solution of important problems in all the relations of life in which
the numerical method can be employed, with a view as far as possible to
determining the laws which regulate them.
There are three medals in gold, silver and bronze. The Guy Medal in
Gold is normally awarded every three years and will be awarded in 2002.
The Silver and Bronze medals are awarded every year.
GUY MEDAL IN GOLD
The Gold Medal may be awarded to fellows or others who are judged to
have merited a signal mark of distinction by reason of their innovative
contributions to the theory or application of statistics.
GUY MEDAL IN SILVER
The Silver Medal may be awarded to any fellow or, in exceptional cases,
jointly to two or more fellows in respect of a paper/s of special merit
communicated to the Society at its Ordinary Meetings, in respect of a
paper/s published in any of the Society's journals. General
contributions to statistics may also be taken into account.
GUY MEDAL IN BRONZE
The Bronze Medal may be awarded to fellows, or to non-fellows who are
members of a section or a local group, in respect of a paper or papers
read to a section or local group or at any conference run by the
Society, its sections or groups, or published in any of the Society's
journals, preference being given to people under the age of 35.
Exceptionally two or more authors of a paper or papers may be considered
for the award provided they are members of sections or local groups.
HONORARY FELLOWSHIP
Honorary fellowships may be awarded in order to recognise individuals of
great eminence for their contribution in other fields, normally related
to statistics. Honorary fellowship is open to all nationalities.
Paul Gentry
Administrative Officer
Royal Statistical Society
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