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

• STAT 551: Term 1 only, open to anyone, via students in STAT 551 mentored by faculty; accepting projects for Term 1 2020-21 from now until Nov 2
• SOS (Statistical Opportunity for Students):  year-round, UBC-V graduate students only, via a team of a senior Statistical consultant and a Statistics graduate...

Our professor and department head, Paul Gustafson, has received this year’s Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) Gold Medal.

The Gold Medal is the SSC’s most prestigious award for research. It is awarded to “a person who has made outstanding contributions to statistics, or to probability, either to mathematical developments or in applied work” (Statistical Society of...

Our department is thrilled to be welcoming five new faculty colleagues: Vincenzo Coia, Melissa Lee, Rodolfo Lourenzutti, Daniel McDonald, and Yongjin Park.

Rodolfo, Melissa, and Vincenzo will be taking up Assistant Professor of Teaching positions on July 1.

On the same date, Daniel will be joining us in an Associate Professor position.

And Yongjin will begin his role as an Assistant Professor in a joint position between the Department of Pathology and Laboratory...

We have all become familiar with the importance of monitoring the number of COVID-19 cases for setting policies and managing limited health care resources. But how do inaccuracies in tests for the virus impact the curves that describe the epidemic?

Paul teamed up with Drexel University epidemiologists Igor Burstyn and Neal Goldstein to study this question, using publicly available COVID-10 testing data from Alberta and Philadelphia. They develop a Bayesian method, placing priors on...