New Zealand Statistical Association Conference 2008

University of Waikato

1-2 September, 2008

You are warmly invited to attend the 59th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Statistical Association, which will be held at the University of Waikato over 1-2 September, 2008. 

Pip Arnold (University of Auckland) Workshop Presentation "Growing Scatterplots"   (see 14 May)

Notices

Brookfield Student Accommodation option closes Friday 22 August 10 am
Earlybird Registration closes on Friday 15 August
Education Workshop Programme
Education Day Handout
Timetable of talks
AGM Documents
The NZSA conference and AGM will be in S Block - click for map

Themes and Call for Papers
Papers are invited from any area of probability and statistics. Sessions are planned on statistical programming, statistical genetics and stochastic processes  Statistics Education will be a special theme for Tuesday, with a keynote address, a session of contributed papers and a series of afternoon workshops.  All sessions in this theme will be of interest to local teachers. Full details of education workshops are now available here. Student presentations are especially welcome. The programme for oral presentations is now full, but abstracts may still be submitted for poster presentations.  Information for presenters is given on the Abstracts page.

Invited Speakers
Prof Charmaine Dean (Simon Fraser University) and Sharleen Forbes (Statistics New Zealand) will give keynote addresses. Charmaine's talk is entitled "Spatial and Mixture Models for the Analysis of Recurrent Events" and Sharleen's talk is entitled "Trying to surf the education wave with official statistics".

Invited speakers in Statistical Genetics are M. Beatrix Jones (Massey University), Katya Ruggiero (University of Auckland), Ken Dodds (AgResearch) and Sharon Browning (University of Auckland).  Invited speakers in Statistical Computing are David Scott (University of Auckland), Yong Wang (University of Auckland) and Paul Murrell (University of Auckland). Invited speakers in Probability and Stochastic Processes are Estate Khmaladze (Victoria University of Wellington), Jeff Hunter (Massey University), Peter Smith (University of Canterbury and Mark Holmes (University of Auckland).

Follow these links for:

Registration Information
Registration Form
Abstract Submission
Programme Information
Accommodation Information
Local Organising Committee

AGM
The annual general meeting of the New Zealand Statistical Association will be held at 4:00 pm after the last session on the first day of the conference.  A proposal to amend the constitution is on the agenda. Follow the links for

• agenda

• proposed amended constitution;

• proposed amended constitution with revisions (21/8/2008);

• proposed policy document;

• joint venture proposal.

Social Events
There will be a reception at the University on Sunday 31st August, at which registration and complimentary drinks and nibbles will be available for registrants. There will be a conference dinner at the Station on the evening of 1st September;  the cost will be $50 per head, which will include some drinks. There will be an event for young statisticians sponsored by Statistics New Zealand, details to be confirmed.

Satellite Workshop
A workshop on Hidden Markov Models will be held at the Royal Society's rooms in Wellington on Wednesday 3 September 2008, the day after the NZSA Conference concludes. The aims are to provide a follow-up meeting to the earlier NZIMA-funded programme on ‘Hidden Markov Models and Complex Systems’, and to take advantage of Walter Zucchini’s visit to Wellington as the Shayle Searle Lecturer for 2008. There is no charge for participants.

Student Prizes
Hoare Research Software will sponsor $1000 in student prizes. The NZSA has some funds available to support students at New Zealand Universities travelling to the conference. For further information contact Jennifer Brown.

Sponsorship
We are grateful to Hoare Research Software for their grant towards prizes for student talks; the Royal Society of New Zealand for hosting the conference website; Statistics New Zealand for sponsoring an event for young statisticians; Bennetts Campus Bookshop for conference discounts; Pearson Education New Zealand; and SAS for providing bags.

For enquiries, please contact Judi McWhirter.

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