Australian &
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New Zealand Statistical Association Newsletter 71
April 2010
Articles added subsequent to publishing.
Photos
Photo Collage: NZSA Conference 2010
NZSA AGM 2010
Committee Reports from the 2010 AGM are Available Online
Campbell Bequest Fund Project Report
Teaching Resources using GENSTAT SCHOOLS Package
Canterbury Tales Website Released
http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/canterbury-tails/
WORLD STATISTICS DAY - 20 October 2010
On the 20th of October 2010, the World will celebrate the first
World Statistics Day, to raise awareness of the many achievements of official statistics.
Information on World Statistics Day can be found at
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd.
Women in Statistics Conference
To promote and celebrate women’s achievement in statistics, on World Statistics Day 20.10.2010, a 1-day
Women in Statistics Conference is being at Victoria University (10.30 - 4.30pm). The event is
free, and a light lunch will be provided. Numbers are limited and places will be allocated on a first-come,
first-served basis. To register please complete the online form.
Further information is provided in the flyer (265 KB).
Call for Quiz Questions for World Statistics Day
In honour of World Statistics Day Statistics New Zealand is working with the Dominion Post
and Air New Zealand to publish quiz questions to promote statistics and we need your help!
Questions must be:
* concise and written in plain English
* based on information collected/published by Statistics NZ
Where possible, we're keen to use questions that we can adapt to be region specific.
If you have an interesting/fun idea for a quiz question, please email the
question, answer and source to
Kelly Gage by Wednesday, 6 October. For useful information visit
www.stats.govt.nz.
NZSA 2011 CONFERENCE - 28-31 August
The 2011 NZSA conference is to be held at the University of Auckland from
Sunday the 28th of August (evening mixer) to Wednesday the 31st of August.
Preliminary Conference Themes and Keynote Speakers:
Biostatistics - Professor Xihong Lin, Harvard
Genetics - Dr Robert Gentleman, Genentech
Machine Learning and Data Mining – Professor Trevor Hastie,
Stanford University
Missing Data – Professor Alan Welsh, ANU
Statistical Methods – Professor Nick Fisher, ValueMetrics Australia
The themes of the conference in general are, but not restricted to; applied statistics, biometrics,
bioinformatics, biostatistics, data mining, ecology, experimental design, genetics, probability and
stochastic processes, statistical computing and statistical graphics, sample surveys, statistics education,
quality improvement and industrial statistics. It is anticipated that there will be a half day session in honour of Professor Alan Lee.
A further announcement will be made when the official conference website is available. In the meantime further
information can be obtained by emailing the conference chair, James Curran,
j.curran@auckland.ac.nz.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING NZSA MEMBERS |
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The first bi-annual Statistical Computing and Graphics Award has been jointly awarded to Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in recognition for their work in initiating the R Project for Statistical Computing. Further details are at: http://stat-computing.org/awards. |
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Paul Murrell has been elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in recognition of his "outstanding professional contributions to and leadership in the field of statistical science". See the AMSTAT press release for more information. |
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| Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics is now available online on Wiley Online Library,
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