Contributed Talks

The following people contributed abstracts for presentations, which were given at the NZSA 2009 Conference. Speakers are listed in alphabetical order, using last names. Contributed presentations were of 20 minutes total duration per paper, which included (at least) 2 minutes for questions. Full written papers were not required.

Abstracts for the Statistical Education Workshops and Talks are given here too, below the abstracts for the regular conference presentations.

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Conference Talks

• Cherif Aidara: The use of auxiliary information in dual frame estimation

• Richard Arnold: Capture-Recapture estimation using finite mixtures of arbitrary dimension

• Rod Ball: A Virtual Institute of Statistical Genetics

• James Barton: New Zealand's GHG inventory – A beginners guide for NZ statisticians

• Brigid Betz-Stablein: Modelling glaucoma with censored and error prone predictors

• Jennifer Brown: Reducing uncertainty about uncertainty

• Deborah Brunning: Experiences with the design and analysis of longitudinal data at Statistics New Zealand

• John Bryant: Attrition in the Longitudinal Immigration Survey New Zealand

• Keng-Hao Chang: Robust regression using nonparametric scale normal mixtures

• Saibal Chattopadhyay: Exponential clinical trials: Sequential comparison under asymmetric penalty

• Chew-Seng Chee: Semiparametric mixture models for symmetric density estimation

• Stefanka Chukova and Dimitar Christozov: Analysing truncated warranty data: A stratification approach

• Austina Clark: Estimating species richness and comparing the species similarity using various models

• Irene David: Engaging the University 100 level audience – How to teach statistical thinking to students from a mixed background

• Tilman Davies: On adaptive kernel estimates of spatially dependent disease risk

• Walter Davis: Playing with matches: Probabilistic linkage, uncertainty bias and variance

• James Dawber: An applied analysis of bird counts using generalised additive models

• James Degnan: Bimodal distributions of coalescent times given a gene tree in a species tree

• Mike Doherty: Sampling errors on the six degrees of separation

• Brian Easton and Ryan You: Demographic determinants of life satisfaction

• Brian Easton, Ryan You and Sally Casswell: Life satisfaction and drinking: A preliminary investigation

• Jamas Enright: The effects of health and wealth on the labour supply and retirement decisions of older New Zealanders

• Sarojinie Fernando: Estimation of geographical relative risk by local polynomial regression

• Selvanayagam Ganesalingam: On triangular approximation to symmetric probability distributions

• John Haywood: Here today, gone tomorrow? Exponential reign lengths revealed and explained

• Diane Hindmarsh: The NSW population health survey and small area estimation and analysis

• Yuichi Hirose: Efficiency of profile/partial likelihood in the Cox model

• Miriam Hodge: Calculation of fix-rate bias for automated telemetry systems

• Marissa Isidro: Intercensal updating of small area estimates

• Steven Johnston: Using statistical methods to answer policy questions: Sole parents, employment incentives and benefit receipt

• Clint Jowett: Quantifying the division between professional and amateur rugby in New Zealand

• Laimonis Kavalieris: Counting breakpoints in time series

• Reuben Kendall and Mike Camden: Confidentiality of longitudinal collections

• Claudia Kirch: Bootstrapping sequential tests for change-point analysis

• Hinrich Kozik: A case for Q? An application of Q-methodology

• Frances Krsinich: Using hedonic regression to assess the housing rentals component of the New Zealand Consumers Price Index

• Kuldeep Kumar: Bankruptcy prediction using decision tree technique

• Ivy Liu: A hybrid method for longitudinal data

• Anna MacDonald: Mixture of parametric and non-parametric models for extreme values with threshold estimation

• Aghababaei Jazi Mansour: Some extensions of the geometric distribution

• Magnus McGee: Bayesian calibration in Microsimulation of Disease and Cancer in New Zealand (MoDCoNZ)

• Esther Meenken: From town to farm: Compost in Canterbury agricultural systems

• Rahul Mukerjee: Highest posterior density regions based on empirical-type likelihoods: Role of data-dependent priors

• Katharina Parry: Traffic network-based modelling

• Richard Penny: Imputation variance estimation for the Accommodation Occupancy Survey

• Steve Quinn: A comparison of logistic regression goodness-of-fit statistics when applied to the log link

• Alastair Scott: Non-response in case-control studies

• Evan Stubbs: Feedback from the field: How our graduates are letting down the profession

• Finlay Thompson: Building a two stage Bayesian dolphin capture model with JAGS

• Peter Thomson: Mixed methods for fitting the GEV distribution

• Rolf Turner: A dearth of evidence

• Chikako van Koten: Longitudinal analysis of count data: A GEE approach

• Dong Wang: Properties of a random matrix with multivariate normal columns

• Ting Wang: Hidden Markov models and mutual information investigation of possible link between GPS measurements and earthquakes

• Norio Watanabe: Estimation of average trajectory of nearly periodic motion

• Robin Willink: A general construction of a shrinkage confidence interval

• Kit Withers: The distribution of the maximum of a first order moving average: The continuous case

• Lingyun Zhang: A note on Bartlett’s M test for homogeneity

• Guan Yu Zheng: Viability of reducing survey frequency using administrative data

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Statistical Education Talks

• Robin Averill: Learning in Statistics: Perspectives of secondary school students

• Kevin Burns: How smart are birdbrains? Number sense in the New Zealand robin

• Mike Camden: New resources for learning of the Curriculum’s statistics

• John Harraway: A new teaching resource for Year 13

• Alasdair Noble and Anne Lawrence: One good tern...

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Statistical Education Workshops

Workshops were either 30 minutes in length or up to one hour; 30 minutes for workshops presented before the Statistical Education Talks and up to one hour for those presented after the Talks.

• Robin Averill: Ideas for teaching statistics in junior secondary school classrooms

• Paul Bucknall, Mike Camden and Nathaniel Pihama: A website of statistical riches

• Tim Burgess: The challenges of using statistical investigations in primary school classrooms

• Maxine Pfannkuch: Comparative statistical reasoning: Some essential dialogues

• Derek Smith: Probability trees and two way tables

• Sandi Tait-McCutcheon: Framing Statistics and Probability Level 1 to 5