{"id":820,"date":"2020-03-04T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/?p=820"},"modified":"2020-03-04T10:16:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T10:16:34","slug":"guy-bronze-medal-awarded-to-rachel-mccrea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/2020\/03\/04\/guy-bronze-medal-awarded-to-rachel-mccrea\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Bronze Medal awarded to Rachel McCrea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel has been awarded the 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy_Medal\">Guy Bronze Medal<\/a> by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rss.org.uk\">Royal Statistical Society<\/a>\u00a0(RSS).<\/p>\n<p>The Guy Medal in Bronze has been awarded for her innovative and novel work in statistical ecology, with particular reference to the development of goodness-of-fit tests and model selection strategies for complex ecological data. Important areas include (multi-state) capture-recapture-type models and integrated models. Notable publications include: the 2017 JRSSC paper \u2018A new strategy for diagnostic model assessment in capture-recapture\u2019, which identified a direct relationship between particular diagnostic tests and score tests; and the 2020 JRSSC paper \u2018Diagnosing heterogeneity in transition probabilities in multistate capture-recapture data\u2019, which developed new tests to identify unmodelled transition heterogeneity.<\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Professor Deborah Ashby, President of the Royal Statistical Society, said: <\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cDr McCrea has made a profound contribution to statistical ecology. The Society\u2019s journals have published a number of noteworthy papers authored by Rachel, and her development of goodness-of-fit tests and model selection strategies has been particularly innovative.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The medal will be presented to Rachel at the RSS Annual Conference in Bournemouth in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel has been awarded the 2020 Guy Bronze Medal by the Royal Statistical Society\u00a0(RSS). The Guy Medal in Bronze has been awarded for her innovative and novel work in statistical ecology, with particular reference to the development of goodness-of-fit tests and model selection strategies for complex ecological data. Important areas include (multi-state) capture-recapture-type models and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40696,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}