Associate Prof John Harraway has taught for 54 years in the University of Otago’s mathematics and statistics department and is a former president of the International Association for Statistical Education. He talks to reporter John Gibb about his long career and his third and final retirement. Read More
Another RNZ podcast, as much statistical as mathematical https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018712945/kit-yates-maths-a-matter-of-life-and-death For example, statistics badly applied did lead to Sally Clarke’s death. And helped wrongly convict Angela Cannings, Trupti Patel and Donna Anthony for murders of their children also. Read More
New Zealand-born data scientist Hadley Wickham is developing open source ways to help people collect and analyse the information that surrounds us every day. He’s yet to meet a data set he doesn’t like and loves poring over his own heart rate statistics, hospital admissions data, and obscure surveys… Read More
Sir David Spiegelhalter talks for 50 minutes with Kim Hill: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018712277/david-spiegelhalter-the-art-of-statistics “In his new book The Art of Statistics the Cambridge Professor shares his passion for data, scientific evidence and risk, and how it’s reported to us. So bacon kills? Well, not so much. And don’t get him started on average… Read More
You are now invited to submit an abstract for a presentation or poster at the International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC2020), to be held on June 22-26, 2020 in Sydney Australia. Abstracts are due by December 2, 2019. Bursaries are available to presenters from developing countries. For details go to the conference website http://www.isec2020.org … Read More
Genetics Society of America (GSA) Grants 2019 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education to Bruce Weir Bruce Weir, PhD, of the University of Washington in Seattle is the recipient of the 2019 Genetics Society of America (GSA) Elizabeth W. Read More
Kiwi Hadley Wickham has won a prestigious international statistics award for his outstanding contributions to the profession. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12254723&fbclid=IwAR2cyyunqObCFpyKSzztjg_fD3wA3Yj9vPA4WFLHXQ94_6SLNRIIzNAvg44 … Read More
You are invited to attend this year’s Mirzakhani Hui (named for Maryam Mirzakhani), a local conference for women in the lower North Island from Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, Modelling and Computer Science that is now going into its third year. It is to be held at Tatum Park on November… Read More
Ken Russell (ex Victoria University of Wellington) passed away peacefully in Wollongong on 16 July after suffering from cancer, in his 69th year. Ken is survived by his wife Janet, and brothers Colin and Ian. His funeral will be held on Tuesday 23rd July at 2pm, at St Mark’s Anglican Church, 433… Read More
Saturday 12 October 2019 https://www.taurangastemfestival.co.nz/… Read More
