Howell Tong
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Howell Tong (simplified Chinese: 汤家
Life
[edit]Since October 1, 2009, he has been an emeritus professor at the London School of Economics and was twice (2009, 2010) holder of the Saw Swee Hock Professorship of Statistics at the National University of Singapore. He was a guest professor, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2000 to 2004, a distinguished visiting professor of statistics at the University of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2013, a distinguished professor-at-large, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China from 2016–2021 and is a distinguished visiting professor, Tsinghua University, China, since 2019.
Tong, a scholarship boy, left Wah Yan College
Tong was elected a member of the International Statistical Institute in 1983. In 1986, he was the session organiser and an invited speaker of the session on time series analysis, at the First World Congress of the Bernoulli Society, held at Tashkent in the former Soviet Union. In 1994, he was the Special Plenary Lecturer at the 15th Nordic Meeting in Mathematical Statistics, held at Lund, Sweden. In 1999, he delivered the Alan T. Craig lecture at the University of Iowa, US. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1993, an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, England in 1999, and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2000. In 2000, he became the first statistician to win the (class II) State Prize in Natural Sciences in China. In 2002, the University of Hong Kong gave him their then-highest award, the Distinguished Research Achievement Award, carrying with it a research grant of HK$1,000,000 per annum for three years. The Royal Statistical Society, UK, awarded him their Guy Medal in Silver in 2007 in recognition of his "...many important contributions to time series analysis over a distinguished career and in particular for his fundamental and highly influential paper "Threshold autoregression, limit cycles and cyclical data", read to the society in 1980, which paved the way for a major body of work in non-linear time series modelling."[3] In 2011, he delivered the Paolu Hsu lecture at the Peking University, China. In 2012, the International Chinese Statistical Association awarded him the Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2014, he held a senior fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bologna, Italy.
Tong has one son, one daughter and three grandchildren.
Bibliography
[edit]- Tong, H. (1983). Threshold Models in Non-linear Time Series Analysis. Springer Verlag. ISBN 0-387-90918-4.
- Tong, H. (1990). Non-linear Time Series: A Dynamical System Approach. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-852224-X.
- Chan, K.S.; Tong, H. (2001). Chaos: a statistical perspective. Springer Verlag.
- Tong, Howell (2001). "A Personal journey through time series in Biometrika". Biometrika. 88 (Biometrika Centenary): 195–218. doi:10.1093/biomet/88.1.195.
- Tong, Howell (2001). "A Personal journey through time series in Biometrika". In D. M. Titterington and D. R. Cox (ed.). Biometrika: One Hundred Years. Oxford University Press. pp. 193–216. ISBN 0-19-850993-6.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Chan, Kung-sik (2009). Exploration of a Nonlinear World: An Appreciation of Howell Tong's Contributions to Statistics. World Scientific. p. vi. ISBN 9789812836274.
- ^ Chan (2009). Exploration of a Nonlinear World. p. vi.
- ^ Honours & Awards Archived 2014-11-11 at the Wayback Machine, RSS, retrieved 2013-12-13.
External links
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- Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- https://dnva.no/medlemmer/53
- Published Papers https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vl7nfw18cczq5g8/AAC2xx_P__nKAmryN9wsbLvSa?dl=0
- A conversation with Howell Tong arXiv:1410.4515
- An interview with Howell Tong https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/snde/ahead-of-print/article-10.1515-snde-2019-0097/article-10.1515-snde-2019-0097.xml
- Exploration of a nonlinear world: An appreciation of Howell Tong’s contributions to Statistics
- Poems and writings http://howelltongblog.blogspot.co.uk/
- Howell Tong at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- An interview with Howell Tong (
透過 時間 了解 世界 ) - Bruce E. Hansen (2011). "Threshold autoregression in economics" (PDF). Statistics and Its Interface. 4 (2): 123–127. doi:10.4310/SII.2011.v4.n2.a4.
- Cathy Chen, Mike So and F. Liu (2011). "A review of threshold models in finance" (PDF). Statistics and Its Interface. 4: 167–181. doi:10.4310/SII.2011.v4.n2.a12.
- Tong, Howell (14 December 2023). "Special Issue entitled Nonlinear Time Series: Threshold modelling and beyond" (PDF). Statistics and Its Interface. 4 (2): 107–118. doi:10.4310/SII.2011.v4.n2.a1.
- "Threshold Models and New Developments in Time Series" (PDF). Statistica Sinica.
- International Conference in Honour of Howell Tong: Nonlinear Time Series: Threshold Modelling and Beyond Analysis 2009
- Threshold models for animal population dynamics
- 1944 births
- Living people
- Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Statisticians
- Hong Kong academics
- Alumni of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
- Academics of the University of North London
- Academics of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
- Academics of the University of Kent
- Academics of the London School of Economics
- Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters