Open to NZSA members: https://statsoc.org.au/event-3914417 We are proud to announce a special event later this month: a panel discussion on “Statistical consulting in the 21st century”, hosted jointly by the Statistical Consulting Network, the Canberra Branch and the Victorian Branch. Please see below for more details. Please note the… Read More
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University of Auckland 24-25 November 2020 The unfortunate events surround COVID-19 have meant that those NZSA members who were planning to attend our joint meeting with the SSA on the Gold Coast this July were unable to do so in person. Therefore the NZSA will run a mini conference on… Read More
SSA and NZSA will host a virtual conference session on July 9, from 1pm to 2:30pm AEST ( 3pm NZST). Sepi Sharif, talking about “Exploring the computational efficacy of Inductive Linearisation to solve for pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic systems of nonlinear ordinary differential equations“ Gang Xie, who will encourage us to “Please join us… Read More
A 1-year MSc scholarship (17,000/annum + fees) are available to NZ residents at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch (New Zealand). Description: Bayesian statistics is often advertised as a seamless and natural way to proceed from an old state of knowledge to a new one by updating the prior distribution… Read More
Alcohol: A dangerous love affair? While coping with the lockdown might have you reaching for the wine – or something stronger – George Seber would caution against that. He’s an Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Auckland University and has crunched the numbers on the harm caused by the $4b New… Read More
Acting on behalf of the NZSA, the President, Secretary and Immediate Past President sent the following email to the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, the Government Statistician and the Chief Science Advisor for the Ministry of Health Dear Professor Juliet Gerrard, Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor cc Mark Sowden,… Read More
Statistical Society of Australia webinar on COVID-19 by by Nicholas Fisher and Dennis Trewin “Learning about the knowns and unknowns: The essential role of statisticians” is on the SSAI Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/naQZlpuWdbE About this webinar: Understanding and controlling the spread of COVID-19 is critically dependent on the availability of… Read More
MINZ 2020_ Poster University of Canterbury Monday 22nd June – Friday 26th June 2020 Registration is open at http://minz.org.nz Mathematics-in-Industry NZ (MINZ) events offer a collaborative approach to industry problem solving, where mathematical scientists tackle real life problems shared by companies. This week-long intensive period of collaborative brain-storming… Read More
2020 series – The role of statistics and computing in public and social policy https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/about-the-faculty/department-of-statistics/ihaka-lecture-series.html Corporations are collecting and mining mountains of data to make better consumers of us all, but there are also vast quantities of data being gathered by public organisations for administrative and policy purposes. The 2020… Read More
