Pre-1995 alumni

PhD Students

Program
PhD 1989
Name:
Brian Leroux
Thesis Title:
Maximum likelihood estimation for mixture distributions and hidden Markov models
Supervisor:
M. Puterman
First Position:
Postdoctoral fellow, Health Canada
Current Position:
Professor Dept of Biostatistics, University of Washington
Program
PhD 1992
Name:
Shiying Wu
Thesis Title:
Asymptotic inference for segmented regression models
Supervisor:
J.V. Zidek
First Position:
Statistics Canada
Current Position:
Research Triangle Institute
Program
PhD 1993
Name:
Paul Gerhard Kinas
Thesis Title:
Bayesian statistics for fishery stock assessment and management
Supervisor:
D. Ludwig
First Position:
University in Rio Grande, Brazil
Current Position:
??

MSc students

Program
MSc 1986
Name:
Lindsay Dunn
Thesis Title:
Modelling survival rates in bilateral breast cancer
Supervisor:
N. Reid
First Position:
Statistician, UBC Faculty of Medicine Pulmonary Research Laboratory, Vancouver 
Current Position:
Senior Scientific Editor, NATO C3 Agency, The Hague, Netherlands 
Program
MSc 1986
Name:
Nhu D Le
Thesis Title:
Statistical analysis of the temporal-spatial structure of pH levels from the MAP3S/PCN monitoring network
Supervisor:
A.J. Petkau
First Position:
PhD student, Univ of Washington
Current Position:
BC Cancer Agency, and Adjunct Professor
Program
MSc 1986
Name:
Hon Wai (Wilson) Ma
Thesis Title:
Smoothing locally regular processes by Bayesian nonparametric methods, with applications to acid rain data
Supervisor:
H. Joe and J.V. Zidek
First Position:
??
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1986
Name:
Randy Sitter
Thesis Title:
The design of quantal response experiments and the modelling of quantal response experiments over time
Supervisor:
A.J. Petkau
First Position:
PhD student, Univ of Wisconsin
Current Position:
Professor, Simon Fraser Univ, Dept of Statistics
Program
MSc 1987
Name:
Bencivenga Roberto
Thesis Title:
A statistical analysis of electroencephalographic spikes in benign Rolandic. epilepsy of childhood
Supervisor:
M. Schulzer
First Position:
??
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1987
Name:
Ping H Ma
Thesis Title:
Disagreement : estimation of relative bias or discrepancy rate
Supervisor:
F.P. Glick
First Position:
Department of Statistics UBC as consultant and lecturer
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1987
Name:
Mai Phuong Thompson
Thesis Title:
Statistical modelling of sediment concentration
Supervisor:
H. Joe
First Position:
??
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1987
Name:
Robert Eugene Lee
Thesis Title:
A statistical analysis of finding the best predictor of success in first year calculus at the University of British Columbia
Supervisor:
H. Joe
First Position:
Statistician, Univ of Victoria
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1988
Name:
Janis Chang
Thesis Title:
Analysis of ordered categorical data
Supervisor:
A.J. Petkau
First Position:
??
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1988
Name:
Lisa Kan
Thesis Title:
Identification of risk groups : study of infant mortality in Sri Lanka
Supervisor:
F.P. Glick
First Position:
Department of Statistics, SCARL
Current Position:
BC Cancer Agency
Program
MSc 1988
Name:
Shiying Wu
Thesis Title:
Trend analysis of monthly acid rain data - '80 -'86
Supervisor:
J.V. Zidek
First Position:
PhD student, UBC
Current Position:
Research Triangle Institute
Program
MSc 1988
Name:
Irene Yee
Thesis Title:
Local parametric poisson models for fisheries data
Supervisor:
J.V. Zidek
First Position:
UBC Dept of Medical Genetics
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1989
Name:
Tao Dai
Thesis Title:
On multivariate unimodal distributions
Supervisor:
A.W. Marshall
First Position:
??
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1989
Name:
Bing Li
Thesis Title:
The relationship between asthma and pollution levels in Prince George, British Columbia
Supervisor:
A.J. Petkau
First Position:
PhD student, Univ of Chicago
Current Position:
Professor, Penn State Univ, Dept of Statistics
Program
MSc 1989
Name:
Mark Irwin
Thesis Title:
Empiric risk estimation in Alzheimer disease
Supervisor:
A.J. Petkau
First Position:
PhD student, Univ of Chicago
Current Position:
Ohio State Univ, Dept of Statistics
Program
MSc 1989
Name:
Rowan Williams-Short
Thesis Title:
Testing a mean reversion hypothesis on the Toronto stock exchange
Supervisor:
J. Liu
First Position:
??
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1990
Name:
Al-Karim Ladak
Thesis Title:
esampling-based variance estimators in ratio estimation with application to weigh scaling
Supervisor:
A.J. Petkau
First Position:
Price-Waterhouse
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1990
Name:
Zdenek Patak
Thesis Title:
Robust principal component analysis via projection pursuit
Supervisor:
R.H. Zamar
First Position:
Statistics Canada
Current Position:
Statistics Canada
Program
MSc 1990
Name:
Yanling Zuo
Thesis Title:
Monotone regression functions
Supervisor:
N.E. Heckman
First Position:
Statistician, ICBC
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1991
Name:
Youshi Chen
Thesis Title:
Estimation with multivariate extreme value distributions, with applications to environmental data
Supervisor:
H. Joe
First Position:
??
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1991
Name:
Paul Antony Gustafson
Thesis Title:
Hierarchical modelling of multivariate survival data
Supervisor:
M. Delampady
First Position:
PhD, Carnegie Mellon Univ
Current Position:
Professor, UBC, Department of Statistics
Program
MSc 1991
Name:
Raymond Rui Fang
Thesis Title:
Simultaneous and sequential ROC analyses for diagnostic tests
Supervisor:
A. Coldman
First Position:
BC Cancer Agency
Current Position:
Vice President, Research, American Academy of Physician Assistants
Program
MSc 1992
Name:
Brad McNeney
Thesis Title:
Overdispersion in Poisson regression
Supervisor:
A.J. Petkau
First Position:
PhD student, Univ of Washington
Current Position:
Professor, Simon Fraser Univ, Dept of Statistics
Program
MSc 1992
Name:
Jinko Graham
Thesis Title:
Longitudinal analysis for binary and count data
Supervisor:
A.J. Petkau
First Position:
PhD student, Univ of Washington
Current Position:
Professor, Simon Fraser Univ, Dept of Statistics
Program
MSc 1992
Name:
Sonia Mazzi
Thesis Title:
A new measure of quantitative robustness
Supervisor:
R.H. Zamar
First Position:
PhD student, Department of Statistics
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1992
Name:
Saluti Komungoma
Thesis Title:
Assessment of the quality for the NADP/NTN date based on their predictability
Supervisor:
J.V. Zidek
First Position:
??
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1992
Name:
Richard Alan White
Thesis Title:
The detection and testing of multivariate outliers
Supervisor:
R.H. Zamar
First Position:
Statistics and Consulting Laboratory, UBC
Current Position:
Statistics and Consulting Laboratory, UBC
Program
MSc 1992
Name:
Ed Susko
Thesis Title:
Segmented regression modelling with an application to German exchange rate. data
Supervisor:
J. Liu
First Position:
PhD student, Univ of Waterloo
Current Position:
Professor, Dalhousie Univ, Dept of Math, Statistics and Computing
Program
MSc 1993
Name:
Wade Blanshard
Thesis Title:
Forecasting value-weighted real returns of TSE portfolios using dividend yields.
Supervisor:
J. Liu
First Position:
Consultant, Dept of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing, Dalhousie Univ
Current Position:
Consultant, Dept of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing, Dalhousie Univ
Program
MSc 1993
Name:
Danielle Chew
Thesis Title:
Identification of risk factors associated with cervical Intra-epithelial neoplasia among women in British Columbia
Supervisor:
A. Coldman
First Position:
??
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1993
Name:
Anona Thorne
Thesis Title:
Studies in applied statistics: ship hull design optimization and endogamous group comparisons
Supervisor:
J.V. Zidek
First Position:
Statistician, St Paul's Hospital
Current Position:
Statistician, St Paul's Hospital
Program
MSc 1993
Name:
Xiaohua Wang
Thesis Title:
Modelling daily returns of New York Stock Exchange by time series with noises having stable distributions
Supervisor:
J. Liu
First Position:
Statistician, St Paul's Hospital
Current Position:
Statistician, St Paul's Hospital
Program
MSc 1993
Name:
Hongbin Zhang
Thesis Title:
Risk prediction models for binary response variables for the coronary bypass operation
Supervisor:
H. Joe
First Position:
Statistics and Consulting Laboratory, UBC
Current Position:
Statistician, St Paul's Hospital
Program
MSc 1994
Name:
Ying Liu
Thesis Title:
A model for multivariate binary data with covariates based on compatible conditionally specified logistic regressions
Supervisor:
H. Joe
First Position:
MSc in actuarial science, Waterloo
Current Position:
?? Richmond, VA
Program
MSc 1994
Name:
Rhonda Rosychuk
Thesis Title:
Cancer cluster detection in British Columbia school districts, 1983-1989
Supervisor:
N. Le
First Position:
PhD student, Univ of Waterloo
Current Position:
Professor, Univ of Alberta
Program
MSc 1994
Name:
Christopher Duddek
Thesis Title:
A cross sectional analysis of air pollution's impact of chronic respiratory disease in Ontario
Supervisor:
J.V. Zidek
First Position:
Statistics Canada
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1994
Name:
Leah Min Li
Thesis Title:
Discrete transect designs for estimating animal population
Supervisor:
N.E. Heckman
First Position:
??
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1994
Name:
Norman Phillips
Thesis Title:
Screening intervals and the risk of carcinoma in situ of the cervix
Supervisor:
A. Coldman
First Position:
BC Cancer Agency
Current Position:
BC Cancer Agency
Program
MSc 1995
Name:
Daren Smith
Thesis Title:
An investigation into the Efficient Market Hypothesis a canonical correlation analysis approach
Supervisor:
J. Liu
First Position:
??
Current Position:
??
Program
MSc 1995
Name:
Andy Chan
Thesis Title:
Image processing
Supervisor:
J. Meloche
First Position:
??
Current Position:
??

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