The National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA) is committed to developing and applying innovative statistical methods to important problems. It undertakes a range of fundamental and contract research, major consulting projects, and professional education in statistical methodology.
Our aim is to provide leading-edge research and consulting capacity in applied statistics for Australia and our region through the skills and activities of our staff and research students. We collaborate extensively with researchers and professionals in universities, governments, businesses and industries in Australia and overseas.
Our research in applied statistics is focused on Biometry and Bioinformatics, Environmental Informatics, and Survey Methodology. NIASRA has expertise and extensive experience in design and analysis for complex data and populations.
Read more about the Institute on the 'Introduction to NIASRA' page.
Upcoming Events
The G38 Research Fellows Meeting will be held at the Goulburn Soldiers Club on 1 April 2020. (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
Please email Angela Fiakos on angelan@uow.edu.au to register your interest and to receive further information about future Research Fellows Meetings.
Past Events
Stats Week 2020, Tuesday 4 to Thursday 6 February 2020.
- Flexible Informative Rank-based Inference Half-Day Workshop, by Olivier Thas (Hasselt University, Belgium, Ghent University, Belgium and University of Wollongong, Australia).
- Advances in Statistical Disclosure Limitation Workshop, with Keynote presenter Dr Anna Oganyan, booklet, presentation slides archive.
- Advances in Statistical Methodology Symposium, organised to celebrate the career of Professor Ray Chambers, with various international and Australian presenters. Programme.
Research Fellows Meeting, Goulburn, 20 November 2019.
Statistical Design and Analysis for Data Science Workshop, presented with our ASEARC partners. Sydney, 7 November 2019.
- Statistics: a Data Science for the Twenty-first Century, by Distinguished Professor Peter Diggle
- False Discovery Rates to Detect Signals from Incomplete, Spatially Aggregated Data, by Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie
- Improving Census occupancy determination: the potential of administrative data for Census, by Sezim Dzhumasheva
- Advanced Analytics in Telco, by Jonny Keane
- Some structural properties of the Transmuted Weibull distribution for modelling survival data, by Muhammad Shuaib Khan
- Efficient Leverage Score Sampling for the Analysis of Big Time Series Data, by Dr Ali Eshragh
- Using Predicted Response Propensities with the Random Forests Method to Direct a Responsive Intensive Follow‐up Strategy, by Summer Wang
- Probabilistic spatio-temporal forecasting using deep learning models, by Dr Andrew Zammit-Mangion
- How does Data Science play out in industry and what skills are we looking for?, by Dr Virginia Wheway
Statistical Science Lecture, presented by Distinguished Professor Peter Diggle. Wollongong, 6 November 2019.
Climate-change research in UOW's Centre for Environmental Informatics, presented by Dr Michael Bertolacci, Dr Andrew Zammit Mangion, Professor Noel Cressie (and Bohai Zhang). Climate-Change Week, 17 October, 2019
Randomization, Bootstrap and Monte Carlo Methods in Biology Workshop, presented by Professor Bryan Manly. Wollongong, 3 October 2019.
Spatio-Temporal Statistics with R Short Course, presented by Noel Cressie and Andrew Zammit Mangion. Sydney, 29-30 April 2019.
Research Fellows Meeting, Goulburn, 3 April 2019.
Stats Week 2019, Monday 4 to Thursday 7 February 2019.
- Microbiome Data Analysis presented over two days by Olivier Thas (Hasselt University, Belgium, Ghent University, Belgium and University of Wollongong, Australia) and Stijn Hawinkel (Ghent University Belgium)
- Assessing Measurement, Reliability and Validity by Professor Angie Wade (University College London)
- Sample Survey Methods presented by Professor David Steel (Director NIASRA University of Wollongong, Australia)
Multilevel Modelling in R Short Course, presented by Mark Tranmer (University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK). Wollongong, 23 November 2018.
Prof Ray Chambers: Nudging a Pseudo-Science Towards a Science, NSW Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia Annual Lecture 6.00pm Wednesday 28 November, UTS Function Centre, Sydney.
SAGI Symposium, Wollongong, 8-9 August 2018.
Symposium on Bioinformatics and Biometrics for Plant Breeding Programs, Wollongong, 25-26 July 2018.
High-Dimensional Data Analysis Short Course, presented by Olivier Thas. Wollongong, 5-6 February 2018.
International Conference on Robust Statistics, Wollongong, 3-7 July 2017.
