Hi Everyone,

Registration for the International Biometric Society Australasian Region Conference is now open.  Biometrics by the Botanic Gardens is being held at the National Wine Centre in Adelaide from the 1-6 December 2019. Please go to https://ausbiometric2019.org/ to view the program and register for the conference. 

We have a great line up of keynotes:

• Marti Anderson, Massey University, NZ
• Daniela Bustos-Korts, Wageningen University, Netherlands
• James Carpenter, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
• Claudia Czado, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• Joanne De Faveri, CSIRO & SAGI-North/DAF, Australia
• Max Moldovan, Registry of Older South Australians, Australia
• Blair Robertson, University of Canterbury, NZ
• Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri, USA

We also have a number of workshops on offer the two days preceding the conference (1-2 December 2019).

Workshops Day 1: Sunday 1st December

• Analyzing dependent data with vine copulas (Claudia Czado)
• R Tidyverse Workshop (Emi Tanaka and Annie Conway)
• Whole Genome Analysis with wgaim (Julian Taylor and Beata Sznajder)

Workshops Day 2: Monday 2^nd December

• Identifying, randomizing, canonically analysing and formulating mixed models for designs for comparative experiments using R (Chris Brien and Sam Rogers)
• Handling missing data in administrative studies: multiple imputation and inverse probability weighting (James Carpenter)
• Shiny App Development (Lachlan Mitchel and Peter Kasprzak)
• An Introduction to Deep Learning with Biometric Environmetric Applications (Chris Wikle and Dan Pagendam)

Regards

Petra