Scientific work of Geary, R.C.

Abstract

Roy Geary is eighty this year and for almost half a century he has enjoyed a major international reputation in mathematical statistics. In the course of a long and varied career he has been Director of both the Central Statistics Office and The Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin, Chief of the UN's National Accounts Branch, and has held posts in Universities in Britain and the USA. He is an Honorary Fellow of several learned societies and has been a member of council both of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth and of the Econometric Society. He has to date published almost one hundred papers mainly in the field of mathematical statistics, but he has also contributed to economic theory, applied economics, economic statistics and demography.