15th AUSTRALIAN STATISTICAL CONFERENCE
Adelaide 3 - 7 July, 2000
Adelaide Hilton International
South Australia
Its not too late to register for this conference!
Draft program details are now available
http://www.infoeng.flinders.edu.au/asc15/program.html
Abstracts for Invited Papers, Plenary Sessions and
Contributed Papers are also available from this site.
A Session on Statistical Consulting will be held at the conference
Wednesday, 5th July, 2000. You are cordially invited to attend this
Session. There is no attendance fee for any person who has registered to
attend the Conference on Wednesday, 5th July. For much more information
about the
Session see below and the Web address
http://www.uow.edu.au/informatics/maths/consprog.htm
Registrations and further information
is available from the web site or the conference organisers:
SAPMEA Conventions
68 Greenhill Road WAYVILLE SA 5034
Ph: +61 8 8274 6060 Fax: +61 8 8274 6000
Email: [log in to unmask]
Unfortunately the registration sight is temporarily unavailable
http://www.sapmea.asn.au/15ASC.htm
Please contact the conference organisers directly if you wish to register
in the next few days.
A reminder of the SATELLITE WORKSHOPS being run:
- Statistical Education Workshop - July 1-2, 2000,
special quest speaker Professor David Moore.
- Data Mining Workshop - July 2, 2000,
principal presenter Professor Jerome Friedman
- Survival Analysis - July 7-8, 2000,
principal presenter Professor Terry Therneau
ABSTRACT DETAILS:
If you are contributing a paper please check your abstract at the web site.
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STATISTICAL CONSULTING SESSION INFORMATION:
15th Australian Statistical Conference
Wednesday, 5th July, 2000
There will be four talks before morning tea:
8:40-9:05
How can we define what it means to be a statistician and
does it matter?
Margaret Mackisack, Stillman & Mackisack Pty Ltd (Australia)
9:05-9:30
Report writing for consultants
Richard Jarrett, CMIS, CSIRO
9:30-9:55
The Commercial Side of Consulting
John Henstridge, Data Analysis Australia
9:55-10.20
Some aspects of being a consultant
Ken Russell, University of Wollongong
10:20-10:50 Morning Tea
10:50-12:30
After morning tea, there will be a Panel Session
on Statistical Consulting. The Panel consists of:
- Robyn Attewell, Covance Pty Ltd, Canberra
- Robert Davies,Statistics Research Associates Ltd,
Wellington, New Zealand
- Ian Gordon, Statistical Consulting Centre,
University of Melbourne
- Melanie Maurer, Lever Rexona, Sydney
- Helena Oakey, BiometricsSA, University of Adelaide
The Panel will address questions related to consulting
(see the Web page mentioned earlier for details).
The audience will then have the opportunity to ask
questions of the Panel.
At the conclusion of the Session, all speakers and members
of the audience are invited to continue the discussions
over lunch (at a venue to be announced). Input will also
be welcomed on the question of whether it would be useful
to set up a mail group specifically on the topic of
statistical consulting.
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Sandra Pattison Ph: +61 8 8431
9426
Continuous Improvement & Audit Branch Fax: +61 8 8431 9424
NCVER
191 Fullarton Road Dulwich
South Australia 5065
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