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Axel won first prize for his presentation at the Research Students Conference.

The Royal Society has announced the award of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award for Jane Hutton's project "Statistical models for medical research, patient care and decision-making".

Her statistical expertise is used to help answer difficult questions raised by health-care workers and patients. For example, she provides international reports on life expectancy of people with cerebral palsy, and those who suffered brain injury in accidents. She has helped to improve understanding of effective drug treatments for epilepsy.

The awards are jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the scheme aims to provide universities with additional support to enable them to attract science talent from overseas and retain respected UK scientists of outstanding achievement and potential.

Royal Society Press Release

Warwick Statistics now has three recipients of the prestigious Guy Medal in Silver of the Royal Statistical Society. Pictured (left to right) with their medals are Gareth Roberts who won the award in 2008, John Copas to whom the award was made in 1987, and David Firth who received the Guy Medal in Silver for 2012 at the recent RSS Conference.

The Guy Medal in Silver is awarded annually to just one recipient, to recognise exceptional published research. Gareth, John and David are all well known for their deep and innovative contributions to statistical methodology; the 2012 award citation mentions also David's spectacular success in the more popular arena of election-night forecasting.

John Copas is Emeritus Professor at Warwick, and a former Head of Department. Gareth Roberts is the Director of the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology (CRiSM) and also Co-Director of the MASDOC centre for PhD training. David Firth is the current Head of the Department of Statistics.

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