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  • 25 March 2011
    The Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the 2010/11 Session of the HKSS will be held on 25 March 2011 (Friday) at 6:15 p.m. at the Immigration Officers Mess, 20/F, Immigration Tower, 7 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. A Chinese style dinner will be held after the AGM. Members are welcome to bring along their guests to the dinner.
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  • 20 October 2010
    The United Nations will celebrate the first World Statistics Day (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/) on Wednesday 20 October 2010. In addition to supporting other celebration activities in Hong Kong, the Society is organizing an academic seminar ¡§An Unexpected Journey to the Converse of Bayes Theorem¡¨. The speaker is Professor NG Kai Wang of HKU, Head of Statistics and Actuarial Science. Following the academic seminar, there will be a commemorative dinner with some sharing in between, which is jointly organized by the Society and the Census and Statistics Department, for gathering Society members and guests to celebrate this occasion. Please click here for the details of the seminar and dinner. The synopsis of the seminar and abstract of the sharing can be found here (synopsis <please click here for the presentation slides> | abstract).

    The logistic details of the two events are as follows:

    Date: 20 October 2010 (Wednesday)
    Seminar: 5:45 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.
    Dinner: 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. [$250 per head]
    Venue: Customs and Excise Department Senior Officers¡¦ Mess,
    9/F, Rumsey Street Carpark Building, Central, Hong Kong.
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  • 20 October 2010
    The Hong Kong Statistical Society, the Census and Statistics Department, the Education Bureau and the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science of the University of Hong Kong will hold a public lecture on ¡§Widening the Scope of General Knowledge Recognising the Fallacies of Statistics¡¨ on 20 October 2010. The lecture is one of the main activities in Hong Kong to celebrate the first World Statistics Day. Key information of the public lecture is given here.

    The lecture will be conducted in Cantonese and admitted free-of-charge. As seats are limited, pre-registration is required. For those who are interested, please register here.
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  • 30 June 2010
    The Hong Kong Statistical Society and the Hong Kong Association for Mathematics Education will jointly organised a seminar on teaching statistics to middle school students. The date, time, venue and speakers of the seminar are given as follows:


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  • 30 March 2010
    The Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the 2009/10 Session of the HKSS will be held on 30 March 2010 (Tuesday) at 6:15 p.m. at the Immigration Officers Mess, 20/F, Immigration Tower, 7 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. A Chinese style dinner will be held after the AGM. Members are welcome to bring along their guests to the dinner.
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  • 29 Jan 2010
    The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science of the University of Hong Kong is organizing a public lecture on "Statistics and the Law" on 29 January 2010. Key information of the public lecture is given below:

    Time: 5:30 - 6:30 pm
    Venue: T1, LG, Meng Wah Complex
    Tea reception at 5:10 pm
    Title: Statistics and the Law
    Speaker: Professor Philip Dawid

    For more details of the public lecture, please visit this website.
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  • 28 Dec 2009
    The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science of the University of Hong Kong is organizing a public lecture on "Statistical Challenges at the age of data explosion" on 28 December 2009. Professor Jianqing Fan, the Frederick L. Moore Professor of Finance and Director of Committee of Statistical Studies at Princeton University, United States, will serve as the speaker. The date, time and venue of the public lecture are as follows:

    Date: December 28 (Monday)
    Time: 5:30 - 6:30 pm
    Venue: Room 223, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong

    A tea reception will be held before the public lecture. For more details of the public lecture, please visit this website.

    All interested are welcome and prior registration is not required.
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  • 21 Dec 2009
    The Hong Kong Statistical Society, the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and School of Economics and Finance of the University of Hong Kong will be jointly organizing a seminar on "A Credit Risk Measurement Framework" on 21 December 2009. We are honoured to have Dr Raymond Li to be our speaker in this event. A tea reception will be held before the seminar.

    Information of the seminar and the tea reception is given below:

    Date: 21 December 2009
    Tea reception: 6:10pm - 6:30pm
    Seminar: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
    Venue: Rayson Huang Theater of the University of Hong Kong (map of the HKU campus: http://www.hku.hk/estates/newmap/)

    More details of the seminar can be found here. The seminar is free of charge and all interested are welcome. Online registration can be made at http://www.hku.hk/statistics/seminar/20091221.html.
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  • 17-19 Dec 2009
    The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science of the University of Hong Kong is organizing an international conference "Nonlinear Time Series: Threshold Modelling and Beyond" in honour of Professor Howell Tong for his pioneering and foundational work in non-linear time series on 17-19 December 2009.

    There will be about 30 overseas speakers, including many top-ranking researchers in time series, for the conference. Among them will be a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, two Fellows of the Royal Society, three Academicians of the Academia Sinica, two Fellows of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Australian Academy, two members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (one being the President-elect) and numerous other luminaries. For details of the conference and the location maps of the venues, please visit this website.

    All interested are welcome to the conference and prior registration is not required.
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  • 16 Dec 2009
    The Department of Statistics and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) are jointly organizing an International Workshop on Statistics and its Interface on 16 December 2009. A number of renowned statisticians from the world, including Professor Howell Tong, the ex-President and honorary member of HKSS, will serve as the speakers. Please refer to this weblink for more information of the Workshop.

    Registration is free. To reserve a seat, please send your name, institution/organization, email and contact number to CUHK at registration@sta.cuhk.edu.hk before December 11, 2009 (Friday).

    Note: Interested members may take the free school bus outside the University Station to the venue of the Workshop, LT3 Science Centre. Please get off at the second bus stop - Sir Run Run Shaw Hall. You should be able to see a big CUHK logo after getting off. It's where the venue of the Workshop locates. Please refer to this weblink for the schedule of the school bus and here for the location map of the venue.
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  • 25 Nov 2009
    Professor Iain Johnstone of  Standford University will present a public lecture entitled "Wishart, Wigner and Weather - Eigenvalues in Statistics and Beyond" at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (T Y Wong Hall, 5/F, Sin-Hang Engineering Building), at 4:30p.m.. Click here for detailed information.
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  • 29 Oct 2009
    To let interested parties understand more about HKSS examination, a seminar cum certificate presentation ceremony will be held in the evening of 29th October 2009 (Thursday). In the seminar, we would brief you about the recent developments of the examinations and accreditations. In particular, the Graduate Diploma examination syllabus will be fully changed to one with five modules in 2010. Moreover, senior lecturers of several tertiary institutions would introduce to you about relevant statistics courses in their institutions in the seminar. Participants are also welcomed to raise questions about the examination. For details regarding the time and venue of the seminar, please refer to this document. For registration, please fill in the reply slip.
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  • 31 Mar 2009
    The Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the 2008/09 Session of the HKSS will be held on 31 March 2009 (Tuesday) at 6:15 p.m. at the Immigration Officers Mess, 20/F, Immigration Tower, 7 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. A Chinese style dinner will be held after the AGM. Members are welcome to bring along their guests to the dinner.
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  • 16 May 2007
    To commemorate its 30th anniversary, the Hong Kong Statistical Society (HKSS) has joined the Department of Applied Mathematics and the School of Accounting and Finance of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to organize a public lecture by Professor Sir Clive Granger, Nobel Laureate in Economics 2003. Click here for the biography of Professor Granger and the abstract of his lecture "Evaluation of Global Economic Models". The lecture will be held at the Chiang Chen Studio Theatre of Polytechnic University. Interested members please register here.
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  • 10 February 2007
    A workshop on 'Statistics in Finance and Economics' will be jointly organised by HKSS and the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research at Room 5501A&D, 55/F Two International Finance Centre, 8 Finance Street, Central. Interested members please click here for details.
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  • 15-16 January 2007
    A workshop on econometric time series will be jointly organised by the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science of HKU, the Department of Econometrics and Operational Research of the Free University of Amsterdam, and HKSS, at Lecture Theatre 5 (T5), 1/F, Meng Wah Complex, University of Hong Kong.
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  • 15-17 December 2005
    The 5th International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) Asian Conference on Statistical Computing will be held jointly with IASC and the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong. For more information about the conference, please visit the conference website at http://www.hku.hk/statistics/IascAsian05/
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  • 17 December 2005
    The 2005 Hong Kong Statistical Conference will be held. For more information about the conference, please visit the conference website at http://www.hku.hk/statistics/HKSS2005
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  • 24 August, 2005
    Professor N. Balakrishnan of McMaster University will present a talk titled "An Overview of Developments in Statistics" at the City University of Hong Kong, at 6:30 p.m..
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  • 23 April 2005
    A forum will be organised for members at 2:30 p.m., Room EF 311 of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to collect members' views on the Review of Secondary School Curriculum for Mathematics under the "3+3+4" Academic Structure. Interested members please click here for details.
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  • 29 October 2004
    Professor Lee Sik Yum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong will present a talk on Structural Equation Modelling at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, at 6:30 p.m.. Interested members please click here for details.
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  • 15th February, 2003
    A joint HKSS-HKIMR (Hong Kong Statistical Society and Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research) Workshop on Financial and Economic Statistics will be held. Interested parties please click here for details. 
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  • 6th December, 2002
    Professor Ingram Olkin will present a talk at Hong Kong Baptist University at 4:30pm. Interested parties please click here for details.

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