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The Department has a long history of research and collaborations in Environmental Statistics and in Spatial Statistics, beginning with Jim Zidek's pioneering work with the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Since that time, faculty have been involved in many research projects, such as the development of statistical techniques for the analysis of air pollution data to study concerns such as public health issues and global climate models. Current work modelling air pollution has resulted in the an interactive map for the World Health Organization, developed by an international team of researchers. Other recent research activities involve collaboration with marine mammal biologists, to study locations and behavior via continuous-time tracking devices.
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The Statistics Department offers several types of free statistical consultation, via STAT 450/550, SOS, and STAT 551, as follows.
- STAT 450/550: Term 2 only, open to anyone, via students in STAT 450/STAT 550 mentored by faculty;...
September 24th, 2019
The Department of Statistics applauds the student-led movement that is bringing increased attention to the dangers of unmitigated global warming. All evidence points to an urgent need for far stronger...
We’re pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Dr. John and Barbara Petkau Scholarships, Hayden McTavish and Naitong Chen.
Naitong Chen is entering his fourth year in the Statistics program. He’s...
The Department of Statistics offers several types of free statistical consultation, via STAT 551, SOS, and STAT 450/550, as follows:
- STAT 551: Term 1 only, open to anyone, via students in STAT 551 mentored by faculty; ...
At the recent 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings, Will Welch was recognized as Fellow of the American Statistical...
We were very happy to read the Government of Canada’s recent announcement of new and renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRCs), especially because one of our Assistant Professors, Marie Auger-Méthé, was on the list of new CRC recipients. Marie has...
The Department is very pleased to announce that two new Assistant Professors are joining our ranks this summer!
Dr. Benjamin Bloem-Reddy will take up his appointment on July 1, 2019. Ben obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics from...
Our M.Sc. student Lucy Mosquera received support from the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) for attending and presenting a poster at the recent Atlantic Causal Inference Conference (ACIC) 2019 in Montreal (worth CAD 1,250)....
We were pleased to hear news from the 2019 Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) Annual Meeting that two of our Statistics Ph.D. students, Xin Ding and Qiong Zhang, won the Case Study #1 category (...