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Australasian Applied Statistics Conference 2011

12-15 July 2011

The Australasian GenStat Users Association Incorporated (AGUAi), in conjunction with the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI) hosted the first Australasian Applied Statistics Conference from 12-15 July 2011 at Palm Cove, Queensland.

These meeting attracted delegates from a large proportion of the biometrical community in Australia and New Zealand, as well as overseas. They provided the opportunity for exchange of ideas in all areas of biometrics as well as encouraging networking and collaboration.

The program covered many of the well established and developing areas of statistics and their application in primary industries and the environment. Presentations by highly regarded international and Australian guest speakers will covered central areas of statistical methodology and application. Developments and enhancements to GenStat and ASReml software were also discussed.

The conference program and abstracts book is here. (pdf – 483kb) (Note: this is the original program – the one below is the final program).

The Conference program: (with slides where available).

* Invited speaker

Tuesday 12 July

Time	Speaker (slides)	Presentation
1:30	Angela Anderson	Conference Opening
1:35	Roger Payne	Conference Dedication to John Nelder
1.40	Chair: Graham Hepworth	Generalized Linear Models
1:45	Roger Payne*	Generalized linear models: John Nelder’s second legacy to statistics
2:30	Ruth Butler	Thrips jumping: using survival analyses and GLM methods for non-medical data
2:50	David Baird	Updates to GenStat microarrray procedures
3:40	Chair: Chris Triggs	Contributed Talks – Design
3:45	Emlyn Williams	The construction of P-rep designs for use in early generation variety trials
4:05	Bev Gogel	A composite sampling strategy for the design and analysis of cereal resistance trials
4:25	Elizabeth Mudford	Fish tag retention design – A balancing act when all fish look the same
4:45	Jennifer Brown	Adaptive and unequal probability survey designs for monitoring animal and plant distributions
5:05	Chris Brien	Principles in the design of multiphase experiments with a later laboratory phase: orthogonal designs

Wednesday 13 July

Time	Speaker (slides)	Presentation
8:30	Chair: Beverley Gogel	Genetics / QTL
8:35	Fred van Eeuwijk*	A general mixed model framework for QTL analysis and its implementation in Genstat
9:20	Alison Smith	A whole genome approach for QTL detection using a linear mixed model with correlated marker effects
9:40	Andrew George	Genome-wide association mapping made practical
10:00	James Doeke	A new statistical framework to identify biomarkers in large data sets with a significant proportion of missing values
10:50	Chair: Dave Butler	ASReml Software Developments
10:55	Brian Cullis*	Modelling variance structures of multi-term effects in ASReml
11:40	Colleen Hunt	Analysis of sorghum breeding trials using pedigree information
12:00	Simon Diffey	A faster and computationally more efficient specification of a REML-(PX)EM algorithm for linear mixed models
1:10	Chair: Warren Müller	Climate Change
1:15	Steve Williams*	Biodiversity and climate change: modelling vulnerability and prioritising adaptation and conservation actions
2:00	Jeremy VanDerWal*	Assessing climate change impacts on biodiversity: methods behind the madness
3:15	Chair: David Mayer	Marine & Environmental Statistics
3:20	You-Gan Wang*	Living with uncertainties in fisheries and environmental research
4:05	Alexander Campbell	Parameterising fisher knowledge in a model of the Queensland scallop fishery
4:25	Peter Jaksons	Ecological sampling: New methodologies to define the strata boundary positions and sample effort allocation using information on species distribution and ecological variables
4:45	Pauline Ding	The effect of de-icing salts on alpine bogs in Kosciuszko National Park (KNP), NSW
5:05	Warren Müller	When do our fish need a bath? – Control of amoebic gill disease in salmon aquaculture

Thursday 14 July

Time	Speaker (slides)	Presentation
8:30	Chair: Chris Brien	Contributed Talks – Health
8:35	Said Shahtahmasebi	The application of instrumental variables in correcting model mis-specification in the analysis of longitudinal observational data
8:55	Bob Forrester	Health care access and social deprivation
9:15	Olena Kravchuk	Repeated measures analysis of small-scale satiety trials
9:35	Max Moldovan	Composite quantitative analysis of international healthcare accreditation survey data
10:25	Chair: Simon Harding	GenStat Software Developments
10:30	Roger Payne*	Some steps towards more convenient mixed-model analyses
11:15	Darren Murray	Extending GenStat to link with other applications
11:35	David Baird	GenStat for Teaching and Learning (GTL) Edition
11:55	Murray Hannah	Fitting Michaelis-Menten directly to substrate concentration data

Friday 15 July

Time	Speaker (slides)	Presentation
8:30	Chair: Alison Smith	Contributed Talks – Agriculture
8:35	Andrew Van Burgel	Analysis issues in precision agriculture farmer friendly experiments
8:55	Vivi Arief	Status Analysis: projecting genotype performance into long-term environment discrimination space
9:15	Craig Hardner	Comparison of two-way and three-way parameterisation of the multi-trait multi-environment genetic variance-covariance matrix for prediction of clonal values
9:35	Aanandini Ganesalingam	The development of a bivariate mixed model approach for the analysis of plant survival data
10:25	Chair: Ruth Butler	Statistical Methods in Practice
10:30	Peter Johnstone	Statistics, the law and logic
11:15	Kerry Dawson	Using splines to model liveweight patterns in a heifer management study
11:35	Gavin Melville	Aerial survey population estimates – contributions to variance
11:55	Hwan-Jin Yoon	Comparison between linear mixed model (LMM) and analysis of variance (ANOVA) for separation of within- and between-subject effects
12:15	Paul Eckermann	Statistical challenges of analysing frost tolerance trials in wheat and barley
12.35	Conference Close

Posters

Attending Author	Title
Kerry Bell	Modelling correlation and heterogeneity across depths affects the significance of the F-tests
Susan Fletcher	Analysis issues in precision agriculture farmer friendly experiments
Chris Lisle	Using clusters to interpret factor analytic MET results of canola blackleg ratings
David Mayer	Data management and statistical considerations for REML analyses used in fisheries sustainability reviews
Esther Meenken	Understanding soil fertility changes after substantial land modification on the West Coast of New Zealand
Andrew McLachlan	BLANDALTMAN: a procedure for producing Bland-Altman plots in GenStat
Christina Playford	Identifying the sources of error in NIRS experiments
Xiao-Zhang Zhang	Comparison of uncertainty propagation calculation methods for experimental data

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