New Zealand Statistical Association 2024 Conference

Ian Westbrooke

NZ Department of Conservation

What makes for a happy tramper?

Simple classification trees were applied to a large set of online responses from people after taking one of NZ’s Great Walks. Two dimensions emerged as explaining much of the variation in overall satisfaction with the DOC’s premier multi-night tramping experiences. In this talk Ian Westbrooke, Principal Science Analyst/Statistician at DOC, will reveal what (on average!) makes for a happy tramper.