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Presenter: Francois Botha (Novare, Bellville) Topic: Using a dynamic benchmarking approach to measure South African equity managers’ skill Date: Friday, 19 October 2012 Time: 13:00-14:00 Venue: Statistics Building (c/o Victoria- and Bosman streets), Room 2021 Enquiries: Danie Uys on 021 808 3879 or e-mail dwu@sun.ac.za.

Presenter: Franck Adekambi (School of Statistics & Actuarial Science, WITS) Topic: Ruin probability in health care insurance pricing with constant force of interest Date: Friday, 21 September 2012 Time: 13:00 to 14:00 Venue: Statistics Building (c/o Victoria- and Bosman streets, Stellenbosch), Room 2021 Enquiries: Danie Uys, 021 808 3879, e-mail: dwu@sun.ac.za

Presenter: Marius Cronje (Stats SA, Cape Town) Topic: An overview of Stats SA activities Date: Friday, 31 August 2012 Time: 13:00 to 14:00 Venue: Statistics Building (c/o Victoria- and Bosman streets, Stellenbosch), Room 2021 Enquiries: Danie Uys on 021 808 3879 or e-mail: dwu@sun.ac.za

First presenter: James Allison (School of Computer Science, Statistics and Mathematics, North-West University) Topic: On the joint distribution of the ranks associated with bivariate data with application to the empirical copula estimator Second presenter: Simos Meintanis (Department of Economics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) Topic: A research program for Fourier-type inference for conditional [...]

Presenter: Gavin Miller (Department of Social Development, Provincial Government of the Western Cape) Topic: The use and abuse of statistics in decision making Date: Friday, 30 September 2011 Time: 13:00 to 14:00 Venue: Statistics Building (c/o Victoria- and Bosman streets, Stellenbosch), room 2021 Enquires: Danie Uys, Tel: 021 808 3879, e-mail: dwu@sun.ac.za.

Presenter: Guus Balkema (Department of Mathematics, University of Amsterdam)  Topic: Asymptotic dependence for light tailed unimodal densities  Date: Friday, 23 September 2011  Time: 13:00 to 14:00   Venue: Statistics Building (c/o Victoria- and Bosman streets, Stellenbosch), room 2021  Enquires: Danie Uys, Tel: 021 808 3879, e-mail: dwu@sun.ac.za Abstract  The credit crisis highlights the importance of [...]

Presenter: Tiaan van der Merwe (SPSS South Africa, Tokai) Topic: Predictive analytics: Real world applications Date: Friday, 16 September 2011 Time: 13:00 to 14:00 Venue: Statistics Building (c/o Victoria- and Bosman streets, Stellenbosch), room 2021 Enquires: Danie Uys, Tel: 021 808 3879, e-mail: dwu@sun.ac.za   Abstract Predictive analytics involves the use of advanced mathematical and [...]

Presenter: Mohammad Arashi (Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran)  Topic: Bayesian statistical inference in elliptical models   Date: Friday, 12 August 2011  Time: 13:00 to 14:00 Venue: Statistics Building (c/o Victoria- and Bosman streets, Stellenbosch), room 2021 Enquires: Danie Uys, Tel: 021 808 3879, e-mail: dwu@sun.ac.za Abstract   As one of important theories in statistics we [...]

Presenter: Carel van der Merwe (Ernst & Young, Johannesburg) Topic: Calculation aspects of the European rebalanced basket option using Monte Carlo methods  Date: Friday, 29 July 2011 Time: 13:00 to 14:00Venue: Statistics Building (c/o Victoria- and Bosman streets, Stellenbosch), room 2021 Enquires: Danie Uys, Tel: 021 808 3879, e-mail: dwu@sun.ac.za Life insurance and pension funds [...]

Presenter: Frederik Scholtz (National Institute for Theoretical Physics) Date: Friday, 6 May 2011 Time: 13:00 to 14:00 Venue: Statistics Building (c/o Victoria- and Bosman streets, Stellenbosch), room 2021 Enquires: Danie Uys, Tel: 021 808 3879, e-mail: dwu@sun.ac.za Historically statistics has played a major role in our mathematical description of the physical world around us, particularly [...]