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Summary: This article introduces a special issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, dedicated as a Festschrift for Geoff McLachlan on the occasion of his 75th birthday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: This article introduces a special issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, being a Festschrift for Adrian Baddeley on the occasion of his 65th birthday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A lucky chance encounter for statistical science in NZ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents an index of articles featured in the volume 45, 2003 issue of "Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics."

The New Zealand Government Statistician decided that, for electoral purposes, Statistics New Zealand should impute Māori–descent status for individuals not responding Yes or No to theMāori–descent question in the 1996 Census of Population and Dwellings. Imputation provides a sounder basis for calculating electoral populations than the approach used in 1994, when all who had not answered clearly Yes or No in the 1991 Census were effectively allocated to non–Māori descent. For the purposes of imputation, the key variables related to the Māori–descent variable were identified using a statistical technique called CHAID (Chisquared Automatic Interaction Detector). Subgroups were created by cross–classification across five variables—island, iwi, Māori ethnic group, Māori–descent composition of the rest of the household, and age group. Within each subgroup, the proportion who responded Yes or No for Māori descent was used to allocate the remainder to Yes or No. The imputation increased the proportion allocated to Māori descent from 16.0% to 17.4% of the total population. However, the proportion of the population imputed to Māori descent was smaller than the proportion who specified Māori descent originally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper outlines the implicit conceptual basis of New Zealand’s electoral district allocation, as embodied in the Electoral Act 1993. It puts the words of the Act into simple mathematical formulae and describes how these concepts are implemented in the Government Statistician’s electoral calculations, with examples from the 1997 calculations. The paper shows how the Māori Option affects the number of Māori electoral districts, and describes an unexpected effect of the Option on the number of General electoral districts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

William Stanley Jevons published his statistical analysis of the climate of Australia and New Zealand, in 1858. Florence Nightingale advised Sir George Grey to collect statistics on M a ori health. Frederick William Frankland published a significant study of mortality in New Zealand, in 1882; and in 1890 George Hogben pioneered the application of statistics to seismology. These people all contributed to statistical knowledge in New Zealand, but were not New Zealanders. Earnest Rutherford, Leslie John Comrie and Alexander Craig Aitken were born and educated in New Zealand, but they worked mainly in the UK. In 1911 Rutherford made very effective use of statistics in discovering the nuclear structure of atoms; in 1937 Comrie pioneered the use of punched-card machinery for large-scale statistical analysis; and Aitken did very important work in mathematical statistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a list of research papers to be published in the succeeding issues of "Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics" after December 2003.

A list of papers that have been accepted for publication in future issues of the "Australian & New Zeland Journal of Statistics" is presented. The papers include "Accelerated Failure in Time Models With Nonlinear Covariate Effects" and "Nonparametric Regression on Functional Data: Inference and Practical Aspects."