UCT Stats Postgrads Scoop Top 3 Prizes in National Competition

Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 SASA Postgraduate Competition and their supervisors, all from UCT Stats!

	First Prize: Darren Williams (Supervisor: A/Prof Sugnet Lubbe) Common Components to Construct Biplots for Three-Mode Data
	Second Prize: Opeoluwa Oyedele (Supervisor: A/Prof Sugnet Lubbe) The Construction of a Partial Least Squares Biplot
	Third Prize: Tinashe Chatora (Supervisors: Dr Freedom Gumedze, A/Prof Francesca Little, Prof Linda Haines) Detection and Accommodation of Outliers in Poisson Regression Models

Other prize winners at UCT this year

SASA Honours paper competition

• Etienne Pienaar 1st prize
• Jonathan van Schalkwyk 3rd prize

International Biometrics Conference

• Lucy Campbell won the prize to be the African student to be sponsored to attend the IBC conference in Japan