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Statistics Teachers' Day (Years 12 and 13)
Death of the Normal Distribution:
Resampling (Bootstrapping), Randomisation and More

Tamaki Innovation Campus, University of Auckland (Map)

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Cost	AMA School Members	$80 (incl. GST)
	AMA Personal Members	$60 (incl. GST)
	Non-members	$100 (incl. GST)
	Pre-service Teachers	$80 (incl. GST)

Programme outline

8:30 - 9:00am	Registration
9:00 - 10:30am Plenary Session	Welcome Stirring the data soup: What spoon do I use? Professor Jennifer Brown, University of Canterbury Star Trek Inference Tour: From taking samples to bootstrap and inference at light speed Professor Chris Wild, University of Auckland
10:30 - 11:00am	Morning tea
11:00 - 11:50pm Inference Session 1	Four identical sessions on bootstrapping and four identical sessions on randomisation (participants randomly assigned to one of these)
11:55 - 12:45pm Workshop Session 1	About 7 workshops covering material in the statistics-based NCEA Level 2 Achievement Standards and 1 or 2 technology workshops (details to be finalised)
12:45 - 1:45pm	Lunch
1:45 - 2:35pm Inference Session 2	Repeat of Inference Session 1 (participants attend the alternative topic to Session 1)
2:40 - 3:30pm Workshop Session 2	Repeat of most or all workshops offered in Workshop Session 1

Registration (Register now)

Please register (online) by Friday 11 November
Registrations will be confirmed (by email) by Tuesday 15 November
In the event that registrations exceed capacity we reserve the right to limit the number of confirmed registrations per school
Payment should be made to the Auckland Mathematical Association as soon as possible after registration is confirmed (see below for payment details)
If you need more information please contact Ross Parsonage, r.parsonage@auckland.ac.nz or ring him on (09) 923-9623

Payment details (to Auckland Mathematical Association, GST number 55-126-402)

Internet banking preferred
- Account No. 12 3031 0788930 00
- Use reference code: StatsDay and the name of your school
If paying by cheque
- Make cheques payable to Auckland Mathematical Association
- Post cheque to:
  Auckland Mathematical Association
  PO Box 26 226
  Epsom
  Auckland 1344

Notice of late withdrawal

If, after your place is confirmed, you cannot attend, you are welcome to send a replacement from your school. If you don't have a replacement please let us know because there could be a waiting list.

Queries

Contact Ross Parsonage (r.parsonage@auckland.ac.nz or phone (09) 923-9623)

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