Welcome to the New Zealand Statistical Association website.
The NZSA Newsletter, Issue 92, March 2025, is now available here.
We are pleased to invite applications for the newly established NZSA Tidy International Travel Scholarship, specifically designed to support Student and Early Career Statisticians (SECSs) in attending international conferences related to statistics and/or data science, including those held in Australia. For more information please see the Call for Applications.
We are pleased to announce that the 2024 NZSA Award Recipients are Lisa Thomasen (Campbell Award), Tilman Davies (Littlejohn Award) and David Baird (Jean Thompson Award). More information is here.
The NZSA congratulates the winners of the 2024 NZSA Best Student Presentations. The prizes were sponsored by Harmonic Analytics. More information is here.
2024 NZSA Best Student Presentations (from left to right): Bradley Drayton (highly commended), Angeline Xiao (highly commended), Matthew Stansfield (Harmonic Analytics CEO), John Haywood (NZSA President), Tori Diamond (best student presentation), Tarin Eccleston (highly commended) and Adam Glucksman (highly commended)
The NZSA Visiting Lecturer in 2025 is to be Dr Matthew Beckman, Associate Research Professor, Penn State University, and Director of the Consortium for Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE). He is well-respected within the international statistics education community and has given many successful US and international talks on topics ranging from the analysis of student engagement with statistical software tools, to research exploring the assessment of student understanding of statistical inference. Currently, Matthew is conducting innovative research at the undergraduate level through a NSF-funded Project called CLASSIFIES (Common Language Assessment in Studying Statistics with Instructional Feedback and Increased Enrollment Scalability). His research will be of interest to statistics educators across NZ universities, particularly those involved with large introductory level statistics and data science courses, where there are practical challenges to providing feedback on student writing. More information about Matthew can be found on his personal website, as well as in his CV.
Matthew will be visiting and giving talks at the following universities during April/May 2025.
| Dates | University |
|---|---|
| Monday 14th April to Tuesday 15th April | University of Otago | Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka |
| Wednesday 16th April to Thursday 17th April | University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha |
| Wednesday 23rd to Thursday 24th April | Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka |
| Monday 28th April to Tuesday 29th April | Massey University | Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa |
| Friday 2nd May | University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau |
The topics, dates/times and locations for these talks will be confirmed in 2025. Enquiries about Matthew’s visit can be directed to Anna Fergusson (a.fergusson@auckland.ac.nz).