We want to know if you think we should change our Section's name. Do you love the title "Young Statisticians Network" and wish us to keep it, or do you think the name could be changed to better reflect the Section's dedication to students and early career researchers? Vote now!

Happy to announce that rater version 1.1.0 is now (back) on CRAN! This update contain bug fixes, many new features, including rater specific priors, and a new vignette. cran.r-project.org/web/packages/r…

Also: (as I should have said in the original tweet) a big thank you to Damjan Vukcevic and Lyle Gurrin for their support and guidance throughout this project!

📢Preprint alert! Statistical models of repeated categorical ratings: the R package {rater} (arxiv.org/abs/2010.09335) We present an R package which uses Stan to fit variations of the Dawid-Skene model Joint work with Damjan Vukcevic and Lyle Gurrin (1/n)

🎉We warmly congratulate Dr Karen Lamb (@drklamb) and Dr Damjan Vukcevic (Damjan Vukcevic) for their appointments to the Editorial Board of Significance (Significance)🎉They are both valuable members of SSA Victoria and Statistical Society of Australia. rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/17…

PhD project with Michelle Blom and myself, plus our international collaborators Philip Stark and Ron Rivest. Scholarship top-up available. See details below...

📢 2022 AGM + March event ⏲️ 5:30-7pm, 30 March 🗺️ UniMelb and Zoom 🔗AGM: statsoc.org.au/event-4716348. Event: statsoc.org.au/event-4716350 Come and join us for our AGM and our first talk in 2022 will be delivered by Damjan Vukcevic and Philip Stark (UC Berkeley) on election statistics. 1/2

Postdoc in statistics at Uni Melb. Working with me, Michelle Blom, Philip Stark and Ron Rivest. Applications close 4 Apr. Details at: jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/908247/…

We are #hiring a new General Manager at Statistical Society of Australia to grow and lead our staff team. Know anyone suitable? Apply at linkedin.com/jobs/view/3924…

Our KIR imputation method is featured in this month's AJHG. Here's a quick intro for non-geneticists: damjan.vukcevic.net/2015/10/08/kir/ Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI)

Slides from my #MelbURN talk today are available at: dvukcevic.github.io/rpkgs-talk/

Damjan Vukcevic makes an interesting point abt career structures being an impediment in bringing together data sources and methodology experts

Slides from my talk "Unlocking Melbourne with #opendata" for Stats Society of Australia yesterday: bit.ly/unlocking-mel Thanks all!

Oue paper on genetics & life insurance at #ACTSUM2017 was featured by Sally Patten in the AFR: see damjan.vukcevic.net/2017/05/23/gen… Actuaries Institute

Read our article! x.com/ActuariesInst/…

A milestone of 2017: Statistical Society of Australia adopts a new logo. See here: damjan.vukcevic.net/2017/12/31/ssa…

R code -> function -> package. Damjan Vukcevic explains the basics of an R package at #ResBaz

Build your first R package! Here are the slides from my talk at #ResBaz yesterday: dvukcevic.github.io/rpkgs-talk-res… Thanks Lucy Liu for inviting me

Want to learn more about R packages? See my short course at #ISCBASC2018 later this year x.com/JessKasza/stat…