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Newsletter Number 72, October 2010 ISSN 0112-2649 The New Zealand Statistical Association stats.org.nz Newsletter Number 72 October 2010 NZSA 2010 Conference Massey University Palmerston North June 29 - July 1 Three Wise Men: Alastair Scott, Stephen Haslett and Len Cook Semiparametric Families. Professor Balakrishnan’s talk was entitled Some Cure Rate Models and Associated Inference and Application to Cutaneous Brigid Betz-Stablein and Ingram Olkin Melanoma Data, and Professor Cheng’s talk was Multistratum Fractional Factorial Designs. Official Report There was a strand running through the conference The International Conference on Statistical celebrating the work of Professor Chin-Diew Lai of Methodologies and Related Topics (ICSMRT) was Massey University. He spoke about Distributions held in conjunction with the 61st New Zealand for Late Life Deceleration Phenomenon. Other Statistical Association (NZSA) Annual Conference, talks focused on reliability and distribution theory, on Massey University’s Palmerston North campus reflecting Professor Lai’s own research interests. 29 June to 1 July. ICSMRT was held to celebrate the research of Professor Chin-Diew Lai of the Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University. Despite being held in winter in New Zealand, the conference was attended by around 100 delegates. About 30% of these were from outside New Zealand reflecting Professor Lai’s high standing in the international statistical community. The plenary speakers were: Professor Ingram Olkin, Professor of Statistics and of Education, Stanford University. Professor N. Balakrishnan, Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster Chin-Diew Lai (centre front) with friends at the 2010 NZSA University, Hamilton, Canada. conference Professor Ching-Shui Cheng, Department of Other sessions covered statistical theory, Statistics, University of California, Berkeley. biostatistics, official statistics, statistics in society, Professor Chin-Diew Lai, Massey University. and statistical education. Professor Olkin spoke on Life Distributions in International guests included Professor Allan Survival Analysis and Reliability: Structure of Sampson of the Department of Statistics, University Published by the New Zealand Statistical Association (Inc.), P.O. Box 1731, Wellington, New Zealand. The views expressed by contributors to this Newsletter should not be attributed to the New Zealand Statistical Association. 1 1 Attendees at the NZSA Conference 29 June - 1 July 2010 at Massey University, Palmerston North of Pittsburgh, who spoke on Multivariate Modelling Relative Risk and Chew-Seng Chee (University of Issues for Multiple Outcomes in Post-mortem Tissue Auckland) for Mixture-based Nonparametric Density Studies, and Boxin Tang, Professor of Statistics, Estimation: Maximum Likelihood vs Least Squares. Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Harold Henderson Simon Fraser University, who spoke on Robust Student Comments Designs Through Partially Clear Two-Factor First and foremost, I wish to express my sincere Interactions. gratitude to HRS and NZSA for their generosity Mike Camden, Len Cook and Mike Doherty were elected life members of NZSA, reflecting their major contributions to the association through statistical education, official statistics and policy, and official statistics methodology, respectively, as well as to the NZSA. Professor Stephen Haslett, who is currently the Managing Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, was awarded the NZSA Campbell Award for his original statistical research, contribution to statistical education, key role in statistical consulting, and contributions to promoting Statistics in New Zealand. [Get more details and pictures of these honours on page 8. - ed] Ting Wang and Sarojinie Fernando (Massey University) and The conference was an enjoyable and interesting Chew-Seng Chee (University of Auckland), student prize winners experience for all involved, especially for those in sponsoring the student prizes at the NZSA who braved the wind and rain on the last afternoon Conference 2010. One of my most memorable of the conference to visit the wind farm electricity experiences as a participant is the genuine kindness generation pylons on the hills surrounding Palmerston of strangers towards me. Personally, this conference North. is also a good platform for exposure to international Stephen Haslett research and meeting statisticians from around the Student Prizes world. At the 2010 NZSA conference at Massey University Chew Chee in Palmerston North, 29 June − 1 July 2010, there Though I have already attended and presented at a were 11 presentations by students. This year number of conferences, this was my first international Hoare Research Software Limited and NZSA each conference, so I was looking forward to listening sponsored $500, giving a prize pool of $1000. HRS to the talks from different statistical directions and has been supporting this prize since 1994, and a list also to getting feedback on my own research from of winners that have been generously sponsored is at the audience. Attending the conference was a great http://stats.org.nz/HRS_student_prizes.shtml opportunity especially for the students who were The winner, receiving $500, was Ting Wang able to present their work and earn generous prizes. (Massey University, Palmerston North) for her There was a strand running through this conference presentation on Markov-modulated Hawkes Process celebrating the work of Prof. Chin-Diew Lai from with Stepwise Decay. Second equal, receiving $250 Massey University. It was interesting to learn about each, were Sarojinie Fernando (Massey University, his large body of research. Palmerston North) for Spatio-temporal Modelling of Apart from the research talks, I had the chance 23 to attend the dinner at the Convention Centre in Conference photo collage at Palmerston North city. I really enjoyed eating stats.org.nz/images/NZSA2010Collage.pdf delicious food and chatting with many of the overseas attendees. Here I would like to mention about talking To sum up, the Conference was of great benefit to Prof. Ingram Olkin and Prof. Allan Sampson about and provided many opportunities for us to learn their lives. from each other, our more senior colleagues I would like to thank the organising committee of and international attendees. As a member of the the Conference. organizing committee this year it was very exciting Sarojinie Fernando for me to see the Conference from the planning stages through to completion. It would be great to Young Statisticians Report see others take up this opportunity. I encourage all The 2010 NZSA conference was hosted by Massey ‘young statisticians’, especially students, to attend University in Palmerston North. This year there and present at future NZSA Conferences. I look were several events specifically for the ‘Young forward to seeing you all in Auckland next year! Statisticians’. The traditional Young Statisticians Brigid Betz-Stablein Breakfast was sponsored by Statistics New Zealand. The night before, a bowling tournament was held, giving young statisticians the opportunity to take their NZSA 2011 Conference competitiveness outside the classroom. The highlight Auckland, 28-31 August for me was the afternoon session. The session was www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/nzsa2011/ organized as a casual opportunity for the young statisticians to ask questions of senior statisticians in The 2011 NZSA Conference is to be held at the academia, the industry and government roles. Geoff University of Auckland from Sunday August Jones (Massey University), Andrew McLachlan 28 (evening mixer) to Wednesday August 31. (Plant and Food Research), and Walter Davis Preliminary Keynote Speakers: (Statistics New Zealand) shared their experiences, Biostatistics – Professor Xihong Lin, Harvard and offered us advice. We were especially pleased to Genetics – Dr Robert Gentleman, Genentech have Ingram Olkin (Stanford University) and Allan Machine Learning and Data Mining – Professor Sampson (University of Pittsburg), our American Trevor Hastie, Stanford University colleagues, volunteer their time. This was a very Missing Data – Professor Alan Welsh, ANU valuable experience for us all. Statistical Methods – Professor Nick Fisher, The Conference dinner was very enjoyable and ValueMetrics Australia gave more opportunities for young statisticians to mix The themes of the conference are (but not restricted with both national and international talent. Student to): applied statistics, biometrics, bioinformatics, prizes were also awarded to the total value of $1000, biostatistics, data mining, ecology, experimental sponsored by HRS and NZSA. [See p3 - ed.] design, genetics, probability and stochastic processes, statistical computing and statistical graphics, sample surveys, statistics education, quality improvement and industrial statistics. It is anticipated that there will be a half day session in honour of Professor Alan Lee. James Curran New Zealand Mathematics and Statistics Postgraduate Conference 22-25 November 2010 Young statisticians’ afternoon session; can you spot the two “old” statisticians in this group shot? The 4th Annual New Zealand Mathematics and Statistics Postgraduate Conference will be held in Westport from 22-25 November. The major goal of the NZMASP conference will be a strong exchange of ideas among NZ postgraduates in mathematics and statistics. Other goals include giving NZ postgraduate students practice in presenting their material, networking with other students and being introduced
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