Edward J. Hannan

Professor
Edward J. Hannan
FAA FASSA
Personal details
Born29 January 1921
Died7 January 1994(1994-01-07) (aged 72)
OccupationStatistician

Edward James Hannan (29 January 1921 – 7 January 1994[1][2]) was an Australian statistician who was the co-discoverer of the Hannan–Quinn information criterion. He studied at the University of Melbourne and completed a PhD at the Australian National University under the supervision of Patrick A. P. Moran.[3]

For the majority of his working life he was attached the Australian National University. He was Professor of Statistics in the Institute of Advanced Studies 1971-1986, Professor of Statistics in the School of General Studies 1959-1971, and Fellow in Statistics 1954-1958.[2]

His research was in the field of time series analysis, both in statistics and econometrics. He is the author of four books,[4][5][6] and [7] with Manfred Deistler.

The Statistical Society of Australia awarded him the Pitman Medal in recognition of his life's work.[8] In 1970 he was elected to the Australian Academy of Science. He also won the 1979 Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal of the Australian Academy of Science.[9][10]

Hannan had left school at the age of 15, becoming a bank clerk for Commonwealth Bank before entering the Australian Army in 1941 and seeing action as a lieutenant during the New Guinea campaign.[11] A full account of his life and work is contained in the Biographical Memoirs of the Australian Academy of Science.[12]

Hannan is the namesake of the Hannan Medal awarded by the Australian Academy of Science.

  1. ^ Robinson, P. M. (1994). "Edward J. Hannan, 1921–1994". Journal of Time Series Analysis. 15 (6): 563–576. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9892.1994.tb00212.x.
  2. ^ a b "Hannan, Edward James (1921 - 1994)". Encyclopedia of Australian Science.
  3. ^ Edward J. Hannan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Hannan, E.J. (1960). Time Series Analysis. Methuen.
  5. ^ Hannan, E.J. (1965). Group Representations and Applied Probability. Applied Probability Trust.
  6. ^ Hannan, E.J. (1970). Multiple Time Series. Wiley.
  7. ^ Hannan, E.J.; Deistler, M (1988). The Statistical Theory of Linear Systems. Wiley.
  8. ^ Australian Journal of Statistics: Pitman Medal awarded to E.J. Hannan[dead link‍].
  9. ^ Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal Archived November 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Australian Academy of Science, retrieved 2010-06-06.
  10. ^ "Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal 1979: E.J. Hannan", Historical Records of Australian Science, 4 (2): 109, 1979, doi:10.1071/HR9790420109.
  11. ^ Hannan, E. J. (1986). "Remembrance of Things Past". In Gani, J. (ed.). The Craft of Probabilistic Modelling. Springer. pp. 31–42. doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-8631-5_3. ISBN 0-387-96277-8.
  12. ^ Gani, J.M. "Edward James Hannan 1921-1994". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 5 August 2018.