The 2005 recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is David F. Andrews.
Professor Andrews was awarded the Gold Medal for his pioneering research contributions in the areas of robustness, graphics and symbolic computation, for his leadership at the University of Toronto and in the Canadian statistics profession, and for inspiring many students with his infectious teaching and his love of statistical science.
This announcement was made at University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, site of this year's Annual Meeting. The Statistical Society of Canada, founded in 1977, is dedicated to the promotion of excellence in statistical research and practice.
"For landmark contributions in the topology and geometry of smooth random fields; the application of random field theory to the statistics of human brain mapping and astrophysics; the field of multiple comparisons, and the field of change point analysis."