Good News

• Ben O’Neill recently became one of the top 20 ranked contributors to the popular statistical Q&A website https://stats.stackexchange.com/.  The statistics portion of this website currently has approximately 215,000 users, and Ben is now ranked in the top 20 contributors (ranked by “reputation”) and the highest ranked among all Australian contributors (slightly ahead of Prof Rob Hyndman at Monash University).

Invited Presentations (already done)

• Ben O’Neill gave an invited presentation for the Centre for Independent Studies, Liberty and Society Conference, Perth, 27-29 Sept 2019.  This was a half-day presentation and discussion session on classical liberalism.  Ben also assisted students and appeared on speaking panels throughout the conference.

Invited Presentations (upcoming)

• Ben O’Neill will be giving an invited seminar at the Research School of Finance and Applied Statistics (RSFAS), ANU, Canberra, 31 October 2019 (11am, location TBD).  He will be giving a talk on the properties and computational challenges of the occupancy distribution, and statistical problems involving this distribution.  This talk relates to a set of papers he is currently working on.

RSPH workshops and seminars (already done)

• R Workshop on replicable data analysis in R-Studio Regression, 3 October 2019.
• R Workshop on data analysis using logistic regression, 17 October 2019.

RSPH workshops and seminars (upcoming)

• DAPH – Nidhi Menon will give a presentation on survey methodology, 12:00-1:00pm, Friday 8 November, Tony McMichael Seminar Room.
• DAPH – Terry Neeman from BDSI will give a presentation on multiple comparisons, 2:00-3:00pm, Monday 18 November,

Outreach and engagement/new funding (upcoming)

• PHX-change has finalised a contract with NIAA for a paid project (approx. $70K).  This project will involve research on the effects of housing conditions on children.  It is scheduled to begin in November 2019; several staff members from RSPH are involved.

Paper provisionally accepted (subject to minor changes)

O’Neill, B. The classical occupancy distribution: computation and approximation. The American Statistician (provisionally accepted).