Household Impacts of COVID-19: ABS Survey
Latest ABS snapshot about how Australian households are faring in response to the changing social and economic environment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eminent Mathematicians and Statisticians elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Sciences
Mathematicians Professors Robyn Owens and Gary Froyland, and statistician Professor Aurore Delaigle are three of the 24 top scientists elected to Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Sciences. [...]
Australia’s COVID-19 lifestyles revealed in latest ABS reporting
One in five Australians is eating more snack foods with a similar proportion increasing alcohol consumption. Household chores, hobbies and cooking participation levels increased. Read the latest [...]
Statistician Sir Adrian Smith elected as Royal Society President
AMSI conveys its warm congratulations to Sir Adrian Smith upon his election as President of the Royal Society, a role he will assume at the end of November. A highly distinguished statistician, [...]
The positives and negatives of mass testing for coronavirus
No test is perfect and all carry a risk of harm of some kind … we must recognise this is also true for coronavirus. Jennifer MacLachlan and Benjamin Cowie of the Doherty Institute on [...]
The costs of the shutdown are overestimated – they’re outweighed by its $1 trillion benefit
Economists Richard Holden (UNSW) and Bruce Preston (University of Melbourne) counter the movement advocating more rapid relaxation of containment measures on the basis of economic costs, and the [...]
April Labour Market Statistics for Australia: “the scale and speed are difficult to comprehend”
University of Melbourne economist Professor Jeff Borland overview in ‘The Conversation’ this morning. [Read more]
AMSI Online Resources Explain the Mathematics of Disease
AMSI is offering free online resources including videos informing the community of the power of mathematics, statistics and data modelling in the epidemeological response to the COVID-19 crisis [...]
Doherty Institute and University of Melbourne modelling guiding COVID-19 response
AMSI members are the forefront of the complex modelling behind the Government’s response to this deadly coronavirus pandemic, with mathematicians creating models of the population to [...]
‘Lack of maths knowledge behind hoarding, experts say’: Professor Tim Brown commentary in the Herald-Sun
News Article 3 April 2020 “Nothing could further illustrate how valuable maths, statistics and interpretation of data is than what has happened in this pandemic.” Lack of Maths [...]
