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Peter Gavin Hall, AO FAA FRS, was an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics. He earned his Doctorate at the University of Oxford in 1976. Hall was an ARC Laureate Fellow at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne,[2] and also had a joint appointment at University of California Davis.[3] He previously held a professorship at the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications at the Australian National University. He was one of only three researchers based outside of North America to win the COPSS Presidents' Award, arguably the world's most prestigious award for research statisticians.
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This series contains research papers and publications, tutorial notes, photographs, correspondence, honours, awards and regalia related to the life and career of Peter Hall spanning the period 1951 - 2016.
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Researchers must sign an access agreement.
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- English