Third Annual ASEARC Research Conference (2009)

Being a national conference with a focus on

"Teaching and Modelling in Statistics" 

The statistics group at the University of Newcastle has the pleasure of inviting you to the third Annual ASEARC Research Conference.  It will be held at the University on December 7th and 8th, 2009.

Our focus is on two themes: World-renowned researchers from both Australia and abroad will give invited presentations, including

Dr Jennifer Brown, Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury

Mike Camden, Statistics New Zealand, and Education Committee of New Zealand Statistical Association

Dr Rosaria Lombardo, Dept of Business Strategies and Quantitative Methodologies, Second University of Naples

Dr Olivier Thas, Dept of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Ghent University

Registration

The cost of registration is AUD$250.00 ($200 for students), and includes morning and afternoon teas, lunches and the conference dinner (to be held on Monday 7th December).  Delegates will be responsible for their own accommodation, however they may wish to consider the Jesmond Executive Villas, where most of the ASEARC attendees will be staying.

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THE REGISTRATION FROM

Please return your registration form to:

ASEARC Research Conference Organising Commitee,

Attention: David Allingham

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

The University of Newcastle 

Callaghan NSW 2308 AUSTRALIA

Submissions

Submissions for presentations relating to either theme are now open. We are accepting both abstracts and full papers. Full papers, up to four pages in length, will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers published in a CD-ROM of proceedings.  The presentation length will be advised but will be in keeping with a conference of this style.   Submissions may be made electronically to asearc@gmail.com.

There is a Latex style file and sample .tex file, as well as a Microsoft Word 2007 format file (the zip format is provided for Windows users, the tgz file for Linux, etc.). Please use whichever you are more comfortable with: for latex submissions, please send a PDF of your paper. The page limit is 4 pages, and full-paper submissions are due on Monday 19th October. If you are having trouble meeting this deadline please let me know and we will arrange an extension; I apologise for the late provision of these templates.

Important dates

Mon 19 October                     Submission deadline for full papers

Mon   2 November                  Submission deadline for abstract-only presentations

Mon 16 November                  Acceptance of presentations notified

Mon 23 November                  Registration deadline

Mon-Tue 7-8 December           Conference, 9am-5pm

About ASEARC

http://www.uow.edu.au/informatics/maths/research/groups/asearc/

Conference website

http://www.uow.edu.au/informatics/maths/research/groups/asearc/activities/2009researchconference/ 

Enquiries

asearc@gmail.com or David.Allingham@newcastle.edu.au

Conference Proceedings and Papers

ASEARC 2009 Proceedings

Papers presented at the conference

Alice Richardson
"Retention of knowledge between statistics courses: results of a pilot study"

Almah Saaid, Robert King, Darfiana Nur
"Development of Users’ Call Profiles using Unsupervised Random Forest"

Anna Macdonald,Carl Scarrott, Dominic Lee
"Bayesian Inference for an Extreme Value Mixture Model"

Anthony Bedford, Cliff Da Costa, and Sam Glasson
"Improving and contextualising statistics service teaching: An online module-based teaching and assessment tool for statistical laboratory sessions"

Ben Dean, Robert A. R. King
"Versatile Regression: simple regression with a non-normal error distribution"

Eric Beh
"A Few Moments for Simple Correspondence Analysis"

Frank Tuyl
"Diagnostic testing: a simple approximate interval for the positive predictive value"

James Baglin, C. Da Costa
"Integrated Statistical Inference: The Amalgamation of Conventional and Bayesian Statistical Inference in Introductory Statistics Courses"

James Dawber, Jennifer Brown, Beverley Horn
"Performing a Quantitative Microbial Risk Analysis Using Second Order Monte Carlo Simulation"

Jennifer Brown, Timothy Robinson
"Assessing uncertainty in environmental sampling"

John Best, John Rayner, Oliver Thas
"Nonparametric Tests for Randomized Block Data with Ties and Ordered Alternatives"

John Rayner, Paul Rippon
"Testing the Poisson Regression Model"

Katherine Uylangco, Steve Easton
"Pricing Wesfarmers Partially Protected Shares"

Kaye Marion
"Teaching Statistical Consulting: Enabling skills transfer and adding value"

Liz Stojanovski, Ian Robinson
"Extensions to Poisson Regression for Hospital Admissions data"

Mike Camden
"Engaging learners in statistical education: some 'whys' and 'hows'"

Paul van Staden, M.T.(Theodor) Loots
"Method of L-moment estimation for the generalized lambda distribution"

Peter Howley, Stephen Hancock, Megan Ford
"Monitoring Clinical Indicators"

Peter Howley
"Winning them over"

Richard Ryall, Anthony Bedford
"Scheduling in Australian Rules Football: Does it Affect Performance?"

Rosaria Lombardo, Eric J. Beh
"Simple and Multiple Ordered Correspondence Analysis to Evaluate Customer Satisfaction"

Sam Glasson, Anthony Bedford
"Modelling the survival of elite Australian Rules Footballers"