SSA SA Branch meeting: Things I've learnt the hard way about regression

The South Australian Branch of the Statistical Society would like to invite you to our first meeting of 2025.

Date: 9th April (Wednesday) 2025

Time: 6:00 – 7:00pm (Adelaide Time).  Pre-meeting refreshments and networking between 5:30 - 6:00 pm.

Venue: In-person and by Zoom

University of South Australia City East, Level 3 Centenary Building, Rm C3-16: see map here: https://www.unisa.edu.au/siteassets/campus-facilities/maps/city-east-campus-map.pdf

The meeting can be joined using the following Zoom link (Password - 364125): https://unisa.zoom.us/j/86922494198?pwd=s065eseQbGGRIsGMYGlcUaNulqbh32.1

Dinner: 7.30 pm - For those interested, a dinner will be held after the meeting at Café Michael 2 (Thai restaurant) - 204 Rundle St, 5000 Adelaide.  Please RSVP to the Branch secretary for dinner by 7th April (Monday), as we are usually unable to change the booking numbers at the last minute.

Presentation

Things I've learnt the hard way about regression

Speaker: Dr. Lauren Kennedy

Regression. It's one of our fundamental tools of the trade. Yet the world of examples we teach in class and the realities of real-world data are far apart. In this talk I share a collection of examples that are odd, interesting and sometimes counterintuitive. Based on my experiences working in prediction and post-stratification based survey inference, my examples include individual versus group prediction, logistic vs linear regression and rare events bias. During the discussion time I hope to leave space for you to share your own weird and wonderful examples.