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2013 NZSA Conference
University of Waikato
24 - 27 Nov 2013

The New Zealand Statistical Association and the Operations Research Society of New Zealand are holding a joint conference in at the University of Waikato. The conference will start with a welcome function on Sunday 24 Nov. The conference sessions will run from Mon 25 Nov to Wed 27 Nov, with a conference dinner on Tuesday 26 Nov.

More details to come! In the meantime, for more information please contact Steven Miller or Vanessa Cave.

Remembering Shayle Searle
(April 26, 1928 - February 18, 2013)

Please click here for Shayle's Obituary.

If you would like to add a tribute, please email Vanessa Cave.

2012 AGM

The 2012 AGM was held on the 29th of November.

The agenda, minutes from the previous AGM, and committee reports are available at
http://stats.org.nz/archive_agm_reports.shtml

All AGM 2012 Reports (1.2 MB)

For more information please contact Beatrix Jones (Secretary).

NZSA Honours for 2012

Congratulations to Professor Chris Wild who received the 2012 Campbell Award, the NZSA's highest accolade.

Chris Wild (centre) with Martin Hazelton (left), Awards Committee Convenor, and James Curran (right), NZSA President.

Congratulations to the joint winners of the 2012 conference student prizes:

Darcy Webber (Victoria University)
Broad scale management in spatially heterogeneous fisheries - does it matter?

Brigid Betz-Stablein (Massey University)
Predicting glaucoma progression: A novel spatial analysis.

The student prizes were generously sponsored by Hoare Research Software.

Brigid, James (NZSA President) and Darcy.

NZSA Newsletter

NZSA Newsletter 74 is now available online.

NZSA Member Honoured

Congratulations to Thomas Lumley (University of Auckland) who has been elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Thomas was elected for his "outstanding contributions to statistical theory and practice; for influential collaborations benefiting many important scientific studies; and for implementation of new methodology through the R system and the development of specialist software packages".

NZSA Executive

Information on members of the NZSA Executive elected and endorsed at the AGM of 2011 can be found here.
President: James Curran (University of Auckland)
Secretary: Beatrix Jones (Massey University, Albany)


James Curran (Left) and Beatrix Jones (Right).

New Young Statisticians Representative

Kylie Maxwell, from Statistics NZ, has joined the NZSA committee as the new Young Statistician's Representative. Visit the Young Statistician's page. for more details.

We thank the outgoing representative, Catherine Lloyd-West, for the sterling job she did!

*The mission of the NZSA is to lead New Zealand to value and make intelligent use of statistical thinking and good statistical practice.*
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