July 2018

We were pleased to have UseR! 2018 event in July in Brisbane. It was held in the city centre and was well attended. The next one UseR! 2019 will be in Toulouse, France.

Peter Baker presenting paper on Reproducible Research at UseR Conference

                                The Australian UseR Conference with the Patchwork R Stickers with three R Ladies Brisbane

August 2018

Susan A. Murphy,  Professor of Statistics, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, spoke at QUT on 22 August . Susan spoke on Stratified micro-randomised trials with applications in mobile health.

Prof Susan A. Murphy with Prof. K. Mengersen

September 2018

Career Event

The SSA-QLD Young Statistician Careers Seminar was held on the 11 Sept 2018 at QUT, Gardens Points Campus. The event was well received and we had a turnout of approximately 55 people.

Dr Lee Jones, the president of SSA-QLD officiated the event by quoting Google’s chief economist, Hal Varian’s strange prediction back in 2009 “Statistician will be the sexiest job in the next ten years. Data is cheap but what’s scarce is the analytic ability to utilize that data”.

Click here for further information.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Young Statistician Participants                                                                                                                                                                       

Young Statistics convened by Dr Lee Jones

Contributed by Carmen Lim, On behalf of the SSA QLD Branch Council

October 2018

Professor Nicholas Graves, from our very own Queensland University of Technology spoke on "Arbitrary levels of confidence in the results of clinical trials could be a massive waste of research dollars".

                       

                                                               

                                                              
                                                                                                                Prof Nick Graves and Prof Adrian Barnett (current President of Australian Statistical Society)

November 2018

We had a seminar entitled The multi-substance Potentially Affected Fraction as a measure of ecological risk to the Great Barrier Reef in November. Our speaker, Catherine Neelamraju, is a Senior Scientist, Water Quality and Investigations, Department of Environment and Science, Queensland Government. Click here for further details.

December 2018

A social meet up provided members with valuable networking and it was a good turnout, food was great. It was held at Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point. Drinks and canapes

Across in New Zealand a few members missed this event as there was the 2018 Australasian Applied Statistics Conference in Rotorua. One of our members (Dr Peter Baker) was an invited speaker here and provided a tutorial. (materials available here)

SSA-QLD Newsletter Correspondent,

Dr Miranda Y. Mortlock, Senior Research Fellow,

Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation. m.mortlock@uq.edu.au @BeST_MYM