DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

within the Faculty of Technical Sciences at the AAU Klagenfurt

AAU Klagenfurt, 1.12.2017, 14-17

Ceremony on the occasion of 10 years Department of Statistics within the Faculty of Technical Sciences. We will use the event for looking back on our achievements and try to develop visions for the ongoing development of statistics at our university. Friends of the department, our students, our alumni, persons from academia and business whom we are cooperating with for years, are welcome to celebrate with us.

Festakt mit Grußadressen anlässlich des zehnjährigen Bestehens des Instituts für Statistik innerhalb der Fakultät für Technische Wissenschaften (TeWi) an der Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt. Die Gelegenheit soll einerseits als Leistungsrückschau und Aufriss von Visionen für die weitere Entwicklung der Statistik an der hiesigen Universität dienen. Freunde des Instituts, unsere Studierenden, unsere Alumni, Personen aus Akademia und Wirtschaft, mit denen wir seit Jahren zusammenarbeiten, sind herzlich eingeladen, mit uns zu feiern.

Session on Design of Computer Experiments 

Jürgen Pilz, AAU Klagenfurt: Design of Computer Experiments – Theory, Models and Applications
Medical Univ. Vienna, 28.8.-1.9.2017
Invited paper

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Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg, 13. 9., 15.30-16.40; 14.9., 13:30-17:20.

This half-day session within the Statistics Days of the Austrian Statistical Society (jointly with the ÖMG-DMV Congress of the Austrian and German Mathematical Societies) is organised by Manfred Borovcnik (AAU Klagenfurt) und Karl Josef Fuchs (Univ. Salzburg).

Contents of statistics and probability have become central topics of the curricula of secondary level as well as in teacher in-service courses at the university. The didactics of mathematics is challenged …

Programme

Abstracts in German

M. Borovcnik, J. Winkler
AAU Klagenfurt, 10.7.-4.8.2017

Praktikantinnen Anna Kramer, Lea Lessiak
Programmieren und Gestalten von Applets in Excel. Diese Applets sollen das Verständnis von statistischen Begriffen erleichtern. Dabei werden auch Daten nach entsprechenden Wahrscheinlichkeitsannahmen zu simulieren, auszuwerten und graphisch darzustellen sein. Technisch-naturwissenschaftliche Inhalte im Praktikum: Programmieren in Excel. Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung – elementare Begriffe und Methoden. Simulation. Key issues for courses in introductory statistics and probability at university level for non-mathematical studies

Poster

Invited Paper Session 116, 61st World Statistics Congress

Marrakech, 16.-21.7.2017
Organiser: Manfred Borovcnik, AAU Klagenfurt
Chair: Michael G. Schimek, Med U Graz
Discussant: Jan Hannig, UNC at Chapel Hill
Speakers:

• Robert delMas, U Minnesota: A 21st Century Approach towards Statistical Inference – Re-Randomization, Resampling, and Bootstrap to Replace Traditional Statistical Inference
• Min-ge Xie, Rutgers U, New Jersey: Urging A Paradigm Change: An Introduction to BFF (Bayesian, Frequentist And Fiducial) Inferences and how Bayesian and Frequentist Come together
• Dalene Stangl, Duke U, Durham: Informal Inference – Some Thoughts to Reconsider
• Manfred Borovcnik, AAU Klagenfurt: Why and how to Train Introductory Statistics Students in Bayesian Thinking – A Decision-Oriented Approach towards Statistical Inference

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