South African Statistical Association

   

TALKS AT VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS BEFORE AND AFTER CONFERENCE

Please contact Departments directly for more detail (on the links page)

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SEMINAR PROGRAM: FIRST SEMESTER 2012

 

 

Stellenbosch University

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science

 

17 February

Makarand Ratnaparkhi (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio)

Certain  properties of weighted lognormal distributions and related applications in statistical inference

2 March

James Allison (School of Computer Science, Statistics and Mathematics,  North-West University)

On the joint distribution of the ranks associated with bivariate data with application to the empirical copula estimator

16 March

Lizanne Raubenheimer (Department of Statistics, Rhodes University)

Bayesian estimation for linear functions of Poisson rates

30 March

Roelof Coetzer (SASOL)

Design and analysis of mixture experiments: physical and computer experiments

20 April

Monique Zaahl (Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University)

Statistics in biology: challenges and opportunities

11 May

Chris Muller (Department of Statistics, Stellenbosch University)

Bayesian multi-state modelling

 

Lectures start at 13:00 and are held in room 2021 of the Statistics and Accounting Building, c/o Victoria and Bosman Streets, Stellenbosch.

Enquires:         Danie Uys (Statistics and Accounting Building, room 2015d)

Telephone:       021 808 3879

Fax:                 021 808 3830

e-mail:             dwu@sun.ac.za

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School of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Wits University

Seminar schedule (Thursdays 12h15, Central Block room 248)

 

 

 

Date

Speaker

Title

16-Feb

Moses Cho and Pravesh Debba (CSIR)

Hyperspectral remote sensing and the curse of dimensionality

01-Mar

Patrick Kelly (Statistics SA)

Consumer Price Index: concepts and misconceptions

15-Mar

Chris Prins (Anglo)

A photo overview of Geology, Statistics, Mathematics and Technology used in diamond mining

29-Mar

Hermi Borraine (Presidency)

Monitoring and evaluation in government: the role of data and statistical skills in measuring progress at municipal level

19-Apr

George Damianov (Standard Bank)

Reasoning under uncertainty

03-May

Peliwe Lolwana (Education Policy Unit, Wits)

Education and the Labour Market

17-May

Vince Micali (Eskom)

Electrical energy forecasting: a complicated business

19-Jul

Stephen Porter (Public and Development Management, Wits)

Current status of the African Regional Center for Learning on Evaluation And Results (CLEAR Africa), challenges and the way forward.

 

 

 

For further information please contact Mrs Linda McRae-Samuel on

Linda.McRae-Samuel@wits.ac.za or 011-717-6266.

or go to the school website at

http://www.wits.ac.za/academic/science/stats/home.htm/5701/home.html

 

 

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