Statistics
Research Seminar Program
Statistics research seminars are held on the 4th Friday of the month (plus additional seminars as noted) from 3:15pm to 4:30pm in Room V101 of the Mathematics Building, unless otherwise specified. If you have questions about any events listed, or wish to enquire about future seminars on particular topics, please contact the Research Seminar Program Coordinator.
Visitors are welcome and anyone is invited to subscribe to our mailing list to receive regular announcements about upcoming events.
Additonal Access Grid Room (AGR) seminars from other Universities are also held on a regular basis. These will only be shown if enough interest has been expressed in advance. Notices about relevant upcoming AGR seminars will be included below and sent out via the mailing list, inviting you to confirm your interest in specific seminars to the coordinator. Full information about the AGR seminar program, including abstracts, is published in the Access Grid Seminars page of the ICE-EM website.
Semester 1 |
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| Date | Presenter | Title | Abstract |
| 14 Feb | Eric Beh The University of Western Sydney |
Exploring Ways of Measuring Association in Contingency Tables | abstract |
| 28 Mar | Dr David Allingham The University of Newcastle |
The Mechanics of ABC, or, Say, Isn't That...? | abstract |
| 23 Apr | Dr Robert King The University of Newcastle |
Partial Classification of Non-Unique Objects with rpart for Robot Soccer | abstract |
| 27 Jun 2:45pm |
Dr John Best The University of Newcastle |
Tests of Fit for the Beta-Binomial Distribution | abstract |
| Dr Darfiana Nur The University of Newcastle |
Hidden Markov Models for DNA sequence segmentation: Simulation and Evaluation | abstract | |
Semester 2 |
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| Date | Presenter | Title | Abstract |
| 3 Sep 3:30pm SPECIAL |
Prof Nick Longford Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain |
Small-area estimation with spatial similarity | CSSM AGR Seminar |
| 17 Sep 3:30pm SPECIAL |
A/Prof Yan-Xia Lin University of Wollongong |
A Graphical Method for Identifying Potential Domains for Change Points in Generalized Bernoulli Processes | CSSM AGR Seminar |
| FYI 2pm Wednesday September 24th the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science seminar in EF122: Dr Peter Schreier "Statistical signal processing of complex-valued data" | |||
| 26 Sep | Prof John Rayner The University of Newcastle |
Testing Equality of Variances for Multiple Univariate Populations | abstract |
| FYI 2pm Wednesday October 1st the ARC Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control (CDSC)seminar in EF122: Professor Reza Moheimani "Control issues in Nanopositioning" | |||
| 3 Oct | Dr Robert King, Dr Liz Stojanovski, Ms Maureen Townley-Jones The University of Newcastle |
Attracting postgrads, Engaging undergrads, and encouraging reflection: Reflections on Ozcots 08 | |
| 15 Oct 3:30pm SPECIAL |
Dr George Sofronov University of Wollongong |
Statistical Model-based Optimization | CSSM AGR Seminar |
| 23 Oct 10:00am W301a SPECIAL |
Megan Ford, Steven Kennedy, Paul Rippon, Almah Saaid, Klairung Pearl Samart, Ian Robinson, Kenny Hong, Philip Lane & Naomi Henderson The University of Newcastle |
Annual Postgraduate Presentation Day (individual topics listed in downloadable abstract) |
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| 24 Oct | Dr Frank Tuyl Hunter New England Population Health |
The Rule of Three, its variants and extensions | abstract |
| 14 Nov | "Statistics Teaching Praxis" | ||
| 28 Nov | Practice talks for IASC 2008 conference to be held in Yokohama | ||
Dr Peter Howley presenting as an invited speaker at the QUT & St Andrew's Medical Institute's collaborative industry/academic workshop, "Driving excellence in clinical outcomes: methods for monitoring and influencing change", in Queensland, May, 2008. Peter spoke about his collaborative work on the analysis and reporting of clinical indicator data for the Australian Council for Healthcare Standards. Attendees included representatives from Queensland Department of Health, QUT, UQ, USQ, St Andrew's Medical Institute and other major Queensland hospitals.
