Dr. Vanessa Cave

Dr. Vanessa Cave is an applied statistician interested in the application of statistics to the biosciences, in particular agriculture, animal science and ecology, and is a developer of the Genstat statistical software package. She has over 15 years of experience collaborating with scientists, using statistics to solve real-world problems.  Vanessa provides expertise on experiment and survey design, data collection and management, statistical analysis, and the interpretation of statistical findings. Her interests include statistical consultancy, mixed models, multivariate methods, statistical ecology, statistical graphics and data visualisation.

Vanessa is a past President of both the Australasian Region of the International Biometric Society and the New Zealand Statistical Association, on the Editorial Board of The New Zealand Veterinary Journal and an honorary academic at the University of Auckland. She has a PhD in statistics from the University of St Andrew.