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Applications are invited for a 3-year PhD studentship titled "Control of equilibria in stochastic networks with selfish routing."  >>

Air NZ is looking to recruit for 2 roles- Reporting Analyst and a Data Modeller. Apply urgently as interviews will be conducted starting from 7 May 2012 !  >>

Read the editorial in the current issue of "Science" the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news and commentary  >>

Watch this YouTube clip explaining why statistical skills are in demand.  >>

Apply for a research project that you are interested in and work with some of the best supervisors.  >>

New Zealand Herald, 1 November 2010  >>

A paper by Chris Wild, Maxine Pfannkuch and Matt Regan from the Department of Statistics and Nick Horton has been popular among readers.  >>

Associate Professor David Scott supports the stats that predict an All Blacks victory at the Rugby World Cup final.  >>

Ben Stevenson, a masters student from the Department of Statistics matched data provided by NIWA and the Ministry of Fisheries with one of New Zealand’s most widely used Māori fishing calendars to see if it stacked up.  >>

Dr Ilze Ziedins’ of the Department of Statistics was recently awarded close to a half a million Marsden grant to study the effectiveness of providing users with information for journey-planning to help reduce congestion on busy networks.  >>

Rutherford Discovery Fellowships for New Zealand’s top young researchers have been awarded to Dr Nicholas Shears and Dr Quentin Atkinson from The University of Auckland, and will bring alumnus Dr David Goldstone back to the University  >>

Thomas Lumley from the Department of Statistics is interviewed by Radio New Zealand’s Colin Peacock on this latest health headlines on the Mediawatch programme.  >>

Dr Geoffrey Pritchard from the Department of Statistics, jointly with Dr Mark Wilson of the Department of Computer Science, has created an election calculator that will help you understand how alternative voting systems can change the results of an e  >>

Nominations are called for noteworthy statistics – good, bad and ugly – quoted in the New Zealand media, for a new weekly competition on the Stats Chat blog run by the Department of Statistics at The University of Auckland.  >>

Thomas Lumley from the Department of Statistics brings his perspective to the latest ACC stats.  >>

Either National or Labour would have won a clear majority, while the Greens, with the third largest party vote in 2008, would have few or no seats in parliament if recent elections were run under some of the voting systems in this year's referendum.  >>

Meet Bobby Willcox, a PhD student in the Department of Statistics and performance analyst for the Silver Ferns.  >>

Stats Chat, the Department of Statistics' new blog scrutinises the statistics in the news- and the news in the statistics  >>

Associate Professor David Scott from the Department of Statistics discusses whether we can really trust the data behind the Reader's Digest's "most trusted New Zealanders" list  >>

A survey of 24,000 school children shows that many students believe that the All Blacks don't have what it takes to win the World Cup  >>