The 2011 Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Statistical Association was held Tuesday August 30, 2011. The agenda, and Executive/Committee reports are available online.

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)

NZSA Newsletter

The first NZSA Newsletter for 2012 is will soon be available online. Visit Online Newsletter 74 for the "under construction" version.

The Newsletter now has a new Editor: Steven Miller (University of Waikato) has taken over from Esther Meenken. Esther has been Editor since 2009 (#69), and produced 5 editions. Thanks Esther for all your hard work!

Esther Meenken and Steven Miller discussing the Newsletter.

NZSA Honours for 2011
For the first time in NZSA history the Campbell Award was awarded jointly. The recipients of the 2011 award were Roger Littlejohn (AgResearch) and Alastair Scott (University of Auckland). Congratulations! Citations for both winners will appear in the next Newsletter. Sadly Roger was granted the award posthumously. However it was lovely that his wife, Annette, and children, Tabitha and Jeremy, were present at the NZSA conference dinner to accept the award on Roger's behalf.

Congratulations to the winners of the student prizes, which were generously sponsored by Hoare Research Software:
First
Jing Liu (University of Auckland)
Diffusion approximation and maximum entropy
Second
Adam Smith (Massey University)
Linking zeros to abundance in zero-inflated models of species count data
Third =
Sam McKechnie (University of Auckland)
The potential of life-history models of Coho salmon dynamics
Third =
Peter Green (Otago University)
Sequential analysis of the Moran Process

2011 NZSA Conference

The 2011 NZSA conference was recently held in Auckland. James Curran, chair of the local organising committee, writes:

Thanks from the organizing committee to all the members who attended this year’s conference in Auckland. You made it a great success. I look forward to seeing many of you again next year in Dunedin. I would also like to formally thank our invited speakers; Nick Fisher, Robert Gentleman, Trevor Hastie, Xihong Lin, and Alan Welsh and our sponsors; University of Auckland, SAS, Hoare Research Ltd. and BNZ.

The local organising committee and invited speakers.

A fantastic collection of mug-shots from the conference are now up on the conference website (Thanks Harold!).

2012 NZSA Conference

http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/nzsa2012/

The 2012 New Zealand Statistical Association Conference will be held at the University of Otago on 29th and 30th November 2012, with a reception on the evening of 28th November.

Confirmed plenary speakers are:
    Patty Solomon (University of Adelaide),
    Roger Payne (VSN International, UK),
    Alastair Scott (University of Auckland).

More information can be found on the conference website,
http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/nzsa2012/.

To contact the local organising committee email Austina Clark.

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