ABOUT
Nico Laubscher is a practising statistician since 1957, specialising in various fields of statistics, inter alia general solution of statistical problems, statistical process control and data mining. As of 2023 only selected general statistical problems will be accepted with the main focus on the design of experiments, analysis of experimental data and presenting training to senior students in this field.
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Nico Laubscher - Stellenbosch, South Africa EMail: StatsKonsult@gmail.com Telephone: +27-82-781-3559 |
SOFTWARE SALES
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Nico Laubscher is the sole reseller for Southern Africa for the software suites: Design-Expert™ (DX) and Stat-Ease 360™ (SE360) – state of the art software for the design and analysis of experiments, products of the principals Stat-Ease Inc., Minneapolis MN. CONFIGURATIONS OF DX & SE360The following configurations of these packages are available for sale:
Request a cost estimate for DX and/or SE360 (Rand or US$) from StatsKonsult@gmail.com. |
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DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS TRAINING
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A course on the design and analysis of experiments has been developed by Nico Laubscher. It is presented online, using Microsoft Powerpoint files on Microsoft Teams platform. It was presented in the past (in person and online) to post-graduate students at various universities, inter alia University of Stellenbosch (Process Engineering), University of the Western Cape (Chemistry), North-West University (Chemical Recourse Beneficiation), Vaal University of Technology and Cape Peninsula University of Technology (Chemical Engineering) and most recently to Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation (Gaborone, BW). The course is presented over five mornings of two sessions of 1½ hours each. The course is based on DX and/or SE360 software. A one-time 14-day trial of the software may be downloaded from statease.com. The training conveys the basic ideas and advantages of properly designed experiments and on completion attendees will have a full understanding of the application of the software. Numerous examples from engineering and science are used to facilitate this learning. Copies of the class notes (some 370 pages) are made available in PDF format to attendees for future reference. |
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PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
- 1956: Started practicing as statistician at the National Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences of the CSIR, Pretoria, and became Head of the Statistics Division in 1961.
- 1959: Invited by Jack Wolfowitz to Cornell University for the academic year.
- 1967: Delegated by CSIR, Pretoria, to visit research institutions around the globe to gather knowledge concerning best practices in applied statistics. This included visits to Rothamsted Experimental Station (UK), Mathematisch Centrum (Amsterdam), CSIRO in Sydney and Adelaide as well as a revisit to Cornell University, University of Wisconsin (Madison) and the University of California Berkeley.
- 1974: Invited by Ingram Olkin to Stanford University for an academic year.
- 1975: Appointed professor of statistics at UPE, Port Elizabeth (now NMU).
- 1983: Invited by Frank Hampel to Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule, Zürich, for an academic year.
- 1986: Moved to Stellenbosch University as professor of statistics with the responsibility of providing a consultancy service to the research community.
- 1989: Accepted appointment as Company Statistician at South African Nylon Spinners.
- 1996: Started an independent statistical consulting service and continuing.
CLIENTS
A variety of engineering problems were solved for companies such as De Beers Group, Anglo Platinum, Barloworld Coatings, Cawood Laboratories, One-Eighty and others.
Work of a legal nature, including acting as an expert witness in court cases, were done for Agricol (Pty) Ltd., Smith Tabata Boyes Buchannan Attorneys and Fairbridges Attorneys.
RESEARCH
Several peer reviewed papers were published in journals such as the South African Statistical Journal, Journal of the S.A. Inst. Mining Metallurgy, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Journal of the American Statistical Society, The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Technometrics, American Statistician, Communications in Statistics and Trabajos de Estadistica .
MILESTONES
- One of the founder members of the South African Mathematical Society (1957).
- Member of the South African Statistical Association since 1957
- President of SASA (1973)
- Editor of S.A.Statistical Journal (1975-77).
- Elected Fellow of SASA (1974)
- Elected Honorary Member of SASA in 2017.
- A member of the American Statistical Association for more than 40 years.
- An International Editor of Communication in Statistics.
HISTORY
Nico Laubscher was born on 28 July 1934 in Paarl, South Africa, as the eldest child of Andries Johannes Laubscher (1904 – 1970) and Johanna Margaretha Laubscher (néé Lubbe, 1910 – 1980). He grew up on a farm at Tadcaster at Vaalhartz in the Northern Cape.
Matriculated in 1951 at Vaalhartz High School, Andalusia (now Jankempdorp). Higher education at Potchefstroom University (now NWU) where he achieved the degree D.Sc in 1959 on a thesis " On transformations for the stabilization of variance and the normalization of distribution functions ".
Is widely read on natural science and my love for nature ranges over everything living. This love of nature culminates in photographing natural things.
