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The University of British Columbia, Vancouver invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Teaching position in the Department of Statistics, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025. The salary range for this position is $120K - $135K, commensurate with qualifications and experience. 

This position provides the opportunity, with strong institutional support, to pursue a career based on excellence in teaching and educational leadership, while...

The Department of Statistics in the Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver invites applications from outstanding new investigators for two tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025. The salary range for this position is $145K - $160K, commensurate with qualifications and experience. 

Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Statistics,...

Applications for the 2024 academic year is CLOSED!

Deadline for applications is midnight Sunday March 24th

The Department of Statistics is hiring several TA and marker positions for 2024.

Positions may be available for:

DSCI 100 – Introduction to Data Science

DSCI 310 -  Reproducible and Trustworthy Workflows for Data Science

Stat 200 – Elementary Statistics for Applications

Stat 201 - Statistical Inference for Data Science...

Research Highlight

Statistical procedures are called robust if they remain informative and efficient in the presence of outliers and other departures from typical model assumptions on the data.    Ignoring unusual observations can play havoc with standard statistical methods and can also result in losing the valuable information gotten from unusual data points.  Robust procedures prevent this.  And these procedures are more important than ever since currently, data are often collected without following established experimental protocols.  As a result, data may not represent a single well-defined population.  Analyzing these data by non-robust methods may result in biased conclusions.  To perform reliable and informative inference based on such a heterogeneous data set, we need statistical methods that can fit models and identify patterns, focusing on the dominant homogeneous subset of the data without being affected by structurally different small subgroups.  Robust Statistics does exactly this.  Some examples of applications are finding exceptional athletes (e.g. hockey players), detecting intrusion in computer networks and constructing reliable single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping.

Events

Dec 11 2024 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Dora Zhao, PhD student, Stanford University
ESB 4192 / Zoom

News

The Department of Statistics of the University of British Columbia is pleased to announce a new admission stream.

Effective now, we offer a PhD Track stream for strong undergraduate students expecting to graduate in Spring 2025 interested...

The Statistics Department offers several types of free statistical consultation, via STAT 450/550/540, SOS, and STAT 551, as follows:

  • STAT 450/550/540: Term 2 only, open to anyone, via students mentored by faculty; accepting...

As you know, Associate Professor Marie Auger-Méthé was recently named a new member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. This Friday...