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
https://careers.sciencenewzealand.org/agresearch-jobdetails/ajid/PI409/Data-Scientist-Senior-Data-Scientist,37127.html The Knowledge & Analytics group at AgResearch supports scientific research in a range of areas to the benefit of the pastoral agricultural sector. This is a team of highly motivated individuals who between them have a broad range of expertise and enjoy working collaboratively to create innovative solutions. Read More
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Statistics (Confirmation Path) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago, New Zealand The University The University of Otago is one of New Zealand’s largest and most research-intensive universities, currently in the top 1% in the QS World University ranking. It is a leader across all fields of academic… Read More
https://www.significancemagazine.com/10-news/640-enter-our-2020-writing-competition-for-early-career-statisticians-and-data-scientists If you read Significance, then you are definitely interested in stories about statistics and data science, and fascinated by what data can tell us about the world we live in. So, how would you like to write one of those stories for the magazine? If you are an early-career… Read More
New postdoctoral position in spatial statistics, to join the Spatial Analysis Group Otago (SAGO) in the Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Details at https://otago.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=2000202 and a description follows here. Research project: “A new generation of statistical models for spatial point process data”; 19-UOO-191. Read More
The New Zealand Statistical Association is funding travel grants for students presenting at the ANZSC 2020 conference. To be eligible for these awards, applicants must: Be qualified to register as a student studying in New Zealand. This requires that the delegate is a full-time student at the time of registration. Read More
