PhD/MSc Alumni
1992
Ed Susko
Thesis Title: Segmented regression modelling with an application to German exchange rate. data
Supervisor: Juxin Liu
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: PhD student, Univ of Waterloo
Current Position: Professor, Dalhousie Univ, Dept of Math, Statistics and Computing
Richard Alan White
Thesis Title: The detection and testing of multivariate outliers
Supervisor: Ruben H. Zamar
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Statistics and Consulting Laboratory, UBC
Current Position: Statistics and Consulting Laboratory, UBC
1991
Youshi Chen
Thesis Title: Estimation with multivariate extreme value distributions, with applications to environmental data
Supervisor: Harry Joe
Program: M.Sc.
Raymond Rui Fang
Thesis Title: Simultaneous and sequential ROC analyses for diagnostic tests
Supervisor: Andrew Coldman
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: BC Cancer Agency
Current Position: Vice President, Research, American Academy of Physician Assistants
Paul Antony Gustafson
Thesis Title: Hierarchical modelling of multivariate survival data
Supervisor: Mohan Delampady
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: PhD, Carnegie Mellon Univ
Current Position: Professor, UBC, Department of Statistics
1990
Al-Karim Ladak
Thesis Title: Esampling-based variance estimators in ratio estimation with application to weigh scaling
Supervisor: John Petkau
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Price-Waterhouse
Zdenek Patak
Thesis Title: Robust principal component analysis via projection pursuit
Supervisor: Ruben H. Zamar
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Statistics Canada
Current Position: Statistics Canada
Yanling Zuo
Thesis Title: Monotone regression functions
Supervisor: Nancy E. Heckman
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Statistician, ICBC
1989
Brian Leroux
Thesis Title: Maximum likelihood estimation for mixture distributions and hidden Markov models
Supervisor: Martin Puterman
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Health Canada
Current Position: Professor Dept of Biostatistics, University of Washington
Tao Dai
Thesis Title: On multivariate unimodal distributions
Supervisor: Albert W. Marshall
Program: M.Sc.
Mark Irwin
Thesis Title: Empiric risk estimation in Alzheimer disease
Supervisor: John Petkau
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: PhD student, University of Chicago
Current Position: Ohio State University, Dept of Statistics
Bing Li
Thesis Title: The relationship between asthma and pollution levels in Prince George, British Columbia
Supervisor: John Petkau
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: PhD student, University of Chicago
Current Position: Professor, Penn State University, Dept of Statistics
Rowan Williams-Short
Thesis Title: Testing a mean reversion hypothesis on the Toronto stock exchange
Supervisor: Juxin Liu
Program: M.Sc.
1988
Janis Chang
Thesis Title: Analysis of ordered categorical data
Supervisor: John Petkau
Program: M.Sc.
Lisa Kan
Thesis Title: Identification of risk groups : study of infant mortality in Sri Lanka
Supervisor: Frederick P. Glick
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Department of Statistics, SCARL
Current Position: BC Cancer Agency
Shiying Wu
Thesis Title: Trend analysis of monthly acid rain data - '80 -'86
Supervisor: James V. Zidek
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: PhD student, UBC
Current Position: Research Triangle Institute
Irene Yee
Thesis Title: Local parametric poisson models for fisheries data
Supervisor: James V. Zidek
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: UBC Dept of Medical Genetics
1987
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: Harry Joe
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Statistician, University of Victoria
Ping H. Ma
Thesis Title: Disagreement : estimation of relative bias or discrepancy rate
Supervisor: Frederick P. Glick
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Department of Statistics UBC as consultant and lecturer
Bencivenga Roberto
Thesis Title: A statistical analysis of electroencephalographic spikes in benign Rolandic. epilepsy of childhood
Supervisor: Michael Schulzer
Program: M.Sc.
Mai Phuong Thompson
Thesis Title: Statistical modelling of sediment concentration
Supervisor: Harry Joe
Program: M.Sc.
1986
Lindsay Dunn
Thesis Title: Modelling survival rates in bilateral breast cancer
Supervisor: Nancy Reid
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Statistician, UBC Faculty of Medicine Pulmonary Research Laboratory, Vancouver
Current Position: Senior Scientific Editor, NATO C3 Agency, The Hague, Netherlands
Nhu D. Le
Thesis Title: Statistical analysis of the temporal-spatial structure of pH levels from the MAP3S/PCN monitoring network
Supervisor: John Petkau
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: PhD student, University of Washington
Current Position: BC Cancer Agency, and Adjunct Professor
Hon Wai (Wilson) Ma
Thesis Title: Smoothing locally regular processes by Bayesian nonparametric methods, with applications to acid rain data
Supervisor: Harry Joe, James V. Zidek
Program: M.Sc.
Randy Sitter
Thesis Title: The design of quantal response experiments and the modelling of quantal response experiments over time
Supervisor: John Petkau
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: PhD student, University of Wisconsin
Current Position: Professor, Simon Fraser University, Dept of Statistics