R help - May 2006 - ASC/NZSA 2006 - Detailed Program Available via the Website

Australian Statistical Conference / New Zealand Statistical
Association Conference
'Statistical Connections'
SKYCITY, Auckland, New Zealand
3 - 6 July 2006



LESS THAN TWO MONTHS TO GO

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Register now for ASCNZ06 - an international conference with a full and
varied scientific program.



For up to date and detailed information on the 2006 Program visit:
http://www.statsnz2006.com/program.asp
<http://www.statsnz2006.com/program.asp>



ASC / NZSA 2006 with less than two months to go has attracted
substantial registrations to its outstanding scientific program
featuring ;



*              4 Plenary Sessions featuring leading international
speakers:

Professor David Donoho - Stanford University, Title: Sparsity in
Estimation and Detection

Professor Peter Hall  -   ANU, Title: PCA For FDA

Professor Ray Chambers - University of Southampton Title:  Models and
Auxiliary Information in Survey Sampling

Professor Xiao-Li Meng  - Harvard University Title: (Data) Size Does
Matter,  But You Might Be In for a Surprise ...



  > 25 Invited Speaker Sessions covering leading international and local
speakers featuring a wide range of topics in Statistical and Machine
Learning, Statistical Inference, Statistics in Ecology and the
Environment, Statistics in Biological Sciences and Medicine, Stochastic
Processes, Econometrics and Finance, Computational Statistics and High
Dimensional Data Modelling.


> Over 30 contributed paper sessions complementing the Plenary and
Invited Sessions



  > A full day theme devoted  to Official Statistics starting with the
Foreman Lecture by Professor Ray Chambers, followed by an invited
session featuring   Professor Alastair Scott and Professor Kirk Wolter.
After lunch there will be an Official Statistics Forum featuring the New
Zealand Government Statistician Mr Brian Pink  and the Australian
Statistician  Mr Dennis Trewin, followed by a contributed session. Other
contributed sessions on various aspects of official statistics will be
held throughout the conference.


>Also included in the conference program is a Young Statisticians
program


> Associated workshops on Distance Sampling, Stochastic Processes and
the R-Fest Workshops on R Graphics, S programming and Bioconductor.
Find out more on the workshops  at the following link
http://www.statsnz2006.com/workshop.asp
<http://www.statsnz2006.com/workshop.asp>




>For information on Tours and Social events Please visit the website
http://www.statsnz2006.com/sprogram.asp
<http://www.statsnz2006.com/sprogram.asp>





We look forward to seeing you in Auckland!