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Call for nominations for the Department of Statistics Award in Data Science for Academic Year 2023-24

The Department of Statistics is soliciting nominations for the Department of Statistics Award in Data Science, an award to recognize the importance of developing and applying tools to answer important questions through the analysis of data.

This $1,000 award is offered to an undergraduate or graduate student who has demonstrated initiative and creativity in making outstanding contributions in the field of Data Science. The award is made on the recommendation of the Department of...

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January 3, 2024

Professor Daniel McDonald Secures CDC Funding to Improve Public Health Analytics

UBC Statistics Associate Professor Daniel McDonald is taking the lead on multiple projects within Carnegie Mellon University's Innovators group. These projects are dedicated to innovating new analytical methods and tools that will ultimately be used to provide information to public health decision-makers.

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November 30, 2023

Free Statistical Consultation: 2023/24

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

  • STAT 450/550/540: Term 2 only, open to anyone, via students mentored by faculty; accepting projects for term 2 2023-24 from now until Dec 14
  • SOS (Statistical Opportunity for Students): year-round, UBC-V graduate students only, via a team of a senior Statistical consultant and a Statistics graduate student ...
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November 10, 2023

Recipients of the 2023 Dr. John and Barbara Petkau Scholarship

This year’s recipients of the Dr. John and Barbara Petkau Scholarships are Wanqing Hu and Chenyue Qian.

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August 16, 2023

MSc Student Nirupama Tamvada receives the 2022 Rick White Award

Congratulations to Nirupama Tamvada, the recipient of the Rick White Award for the UBC academic year 2022.

Nirupama has had the opportunity to work on fruitful collaborations related to biomedical data. She worked in collaboration with the CANSII CRT research team to develop a methodology for analyzing high-dimensional survival data with multiple events.

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August 3, 2023

Free Statistical Consultation: 2023/24

The Statistics Department 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; accepting projects for term 1 2023-24 from now until Oct 31
  • SOS (Statistical Opportunity for Students): year-round, UBC-V graduate students only, via a team of a senior Statistical consultant and a Statistics graduate student...
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July 24, 2023

Chloe You won the CSSC Oral Presentation Award

Congratulations to UBC Statistics M.Sc. student Xinyuan (Chloe) You for winning the CSSC Oral Presentation Competition. Chloe’s talk on "Regularized Relative Risk Regression for High-dimensional Data" won the 2nd prize oral presentation at the Master’s level at the 11th Annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference (CSSC). Chloe is supervised by professor ...

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July 12, 2023

Daniel McDonald appointed as a SSC Regional Representative representing Alberta/BC/Yukon

Congratulations to our Associate Professor Daniel McDonald on his role as the Regional Representative on the board of directors representing Alberta, British Columbia, and Yukon of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). His new role began on July 1, 2023 and he will serve until June 30, 2025.

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July 5, 2023

Statistics students gain valuable experience and network connections attending 2023 SSC Case Studies in Data Analysis Competition

2023 SSC Case Studies in Data Analysis Poster Competition was held on Monday, May 29, 2023 at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON. The case studies are intended to provide enthusiastic teams of graduate and senior undergraduate students with the opportunity to use data analysis to address issues of current importance in society. Each participating team...

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June 15, 2023

UBC Statistics sponsoring 2023 Annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference (CSSC)

The eleventh annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference (CSSC) took place on Saturday, May 27, 2023. This conference was all about engaging students through research presentations, statistical skills development workshops and talks, and an interactive career session with invited statisticians from different professional areas.

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June 14, 2023

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