PhD/Msc Alumni
1999
Thesis Title: Extension of the VaR Approach to Portfolio Selection with Non-normal Returns
Supervisor: Juxin Liu
First Position: Statistical Analyst, Workers' Compensation Board, Richmond, BC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: A Bayesian Approach to Case-Control Studies with Errors in the Covariates
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
First Position: Programmer Statistician, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC
Current Position: Biostatistician, Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research, Harvard School of Public Health
Program: MSc
1998
Thesis Title: Bump Hunting in Regression Revisited
Supervisor: Nancy E. Heckman
First Position: Biostatistician, Dept. of Medicine at Indiana University & Purdue University (IUPUI) in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Indiana University, Dept of Medicine
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Ambient Hourly PM10 in Vancouver
Supervisor: James V. Zidek FRSC, O.C.
First Position: Statistician, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Some Statistical Properties of Multivariate Proper Dispersion Models
Supervisor: Bent Jorgensen
First Position: Statistical Analyst, Dept. of Health Care & Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Current Position: Senior Biostatistician, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Smoothing Parameter Selection when Errors are Correlated and Application to Ozone Data
Supervisor: Nancy E. Heckman
First Position: Ph.D. student in Computer Science, UBC
Program: MSc
1997
Thesis Title: Analysis of Longitudinal Data of Mixed Types using a State Space Model Approach
Supervisor: Bent Jorgensen
First Position: Demonstrator / instructor, University of Hong Kong
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Analysis of Longitudinal Data from the Betaseron Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trial
Supervisor: John Petkau
First Position: Statistical Analyst, Department of Pathology, Pulmonary Research Lab, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Procedures for Multiple Outcome Measures with Applications to Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trials
Supervisor: John Petkau
First Position: Statistical Analyst, Health Research Centre, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Robust Tests on the Equality of Variances
Supervisor: Ruben H Zamar
First Position: MSc student, Mathematical Finance, UBC
Program: MSc