The Statistics Research Group within the Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics (RSFAS) brings together staff with a diverse range of interests and research agendas ranging from probability theory to applications of statistics. Our staff collaborate with researchers throughout the University and elsewhere, including those from the Mathematical Sciences Institute, the CSIRO, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Crawford School of Public Policy, and the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute. Many of the Group's staff have close collaborations with academics within the CBE itself, including those in the fields of Actuarial Studies, Finance, and Economics.
Further information about research interests can be found on the profile pages of the Statistics faculty.
Our people
NEWS
2019 Hannan Medal
Alan Welsh received the prestigious 2019 Hannan Medal from the Australian Academy of Science, recognising his significant contributions to the field of statistics.
ARC grant successes
Francis Hui was awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA 2020) for the project ‘Modern statistical methods for complex multivariate longitudinal data.’
Janice Scealy (jointly with A.P. Roberts and D. Heslop) was awarded an ARC Discovery Projects grant (2019) for the project ‘A new generation of palaeomagnetic statistics.’
Eric Stone was awarded an ARC Discovery Projects grant (2019) for the project ‘Guiding principles and guardrails for genetic association studies’
Francis Hui and Alan Welsh (jointly with Professor Samuel Mueller) were awarded an ARC Discovery Projects grant (2018) for the project ‘Dimension reduction and model selection for statistically challenging data.’
Janice Scealy was awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA 2018) for the project ‘Statistics for manifold-valued data.’
Vice-Chancellor’s Award
Congratulations to Tao Zou for receiving a 2020 Vice-Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (Early Career).
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
ANU-RSFAS research camp
ANU-RSFAS hosts an annual summer research camp. Please see information about the 2019 camp here.