Professor K. Laurence (Larry) Weldon is the recipient of the 2017 Distinguished Service Award from the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). This award honours an individual who has played an important and substantial role in fostering the growth and success of the Canadian statistical sciences community through leadership in the SSC.

The CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics is awarded annually by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). It is awarded in recognition of a statistical scientist’s professional accomplishments in research during the first fifteen years after having received a doctorate.

This year’s winner is Lei Sun of the University of Toronto.

The 2017 recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is Professor Richard Cook. 

The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award is presented each year by the Statistical Society of Canada to the author(s) of an article published in the Journal, in recognition of the outstanding quality of the methodological innovation and presentation. 

The 2016 recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is Professor Harry Joe. 

Dr. Ivan Fellegi, Canada’s Chief Statistician (Emeritus) is the 2016 recipient of the Lise Manchester Award. The award recognizes excellence in statistical research which considers problems of public interest and which is potentially useful for formation of Canadian public policy.

The 2016 recipient of the Statistical Society of Canada Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work is Jim Hanley, Professor, McGill University; and Senior Scientist, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital.

Professor John Koval is the recipient of the 2016 Distinguished Service Award from the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). This award honours an individual who has played an important and substantial role in fostering the growth and success of the Canadian Statistical Sciences community through leadership in the SSC.

The CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics is awarded annually by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). It is awarded in recognition of a statistical scientist’s professional accomplishments in research during the first fifteen years after having received a doctorate.

This prize recognizes the best PhD thesis in probability or statistics defended at a Canadian university in a given year. Yujie’s thesis, entitled “Life History Analysis with ResponseDependent Observation”, was written while she was a doctoral student at the University of Waterloo working under the supervision of Richard Cook.

The 2015 recipient of the Statistical Society of Canada Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work is Shelley Bull, Senior Investigator in the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital and Professor in the Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award is presented each year by the Statistical Society of Canada to the author(s) of an article published in the Journal, in recognition of the outstanding quality of the methodological innovation and presentation. This year's winner is the article entitled "Semiparametric methods for survival analysis of case-control data subject to dependent censoring" (Volume 42, no. 3, pp. 365-383) by Douglas E. Schaubel, Hui Zhang, John D. Kalbfleisch, and Xu Shu.

John D. (Jack) Kalbfleisch, Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, has been named an Honorary Member of the Statistical Society of Canada. This award is intended to honor an individual who has made exceptional contributions to the development of the statistical sciences in Canada and whose work has had a major impact in this country.

The CRM-SSC Prize in statistics is awarded annually by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). It is awarded in recognition of a statistical scientist's professional accomplishments in research during the first fifteen years after having received a doctorate. This year's winner is Matías Salibián-Barrera of the University of British Columbia (UBC).

The 2015 recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is Richard Lockhart.

Professor Shirley Mills is the recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Service Award from the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). This award honors an individual who has played an important and substantial role in fostering the growth and success of the Canadian Statistical Sciences community through leadership in the SSC.

Dr Ying Yan is the winner of the 2014 Pierre Robillard Award of the Statistical Society of Canada. This prize recognizes the best PhD thesis in probability or statistics defended at a Canadian university in a given year. Ying's thesis is entitled "Statistical Methods on Survival Data with Measurement Error". It was written at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Grace Yi.

Liqun Diao is the winner of the 2013 Pierre Robillard Award of the Statistical Society of Canada. This prize recognizes the best PhD thesis in probability or statistics defended at a Canadian university in a given year.

Professor Agnes Herzberg is the 2014 recipient of the Lise Manchester Award. This biennial award is given by the Statistical Society of Canada in commemoration of the late Dr Lise Manchester’s abiding interest in using statistical methods to study matters of relevance to society. The award recognizes excellence in statistical research which considers problems of public interest and which is potentially useful for formation of Canadian public policy.

The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award is presented each year by the Statistical Society of Canada to the author(s) of an article published in the Journal, in recognition of the outstanding quality of the paper’s methodological innovation and presentation. This year’s winner is the article entitled “Self-concordance for empirical likelihood” (Volume 41, no. 3, pp. 387-397) by Art B. Owen.

The CRM-SSC Prize in statistics is awarded annually by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (Montréal) and the Statistical Society of Canada to recognize a statistical scientist's professional accomplishments in research during the first fifteen years after earning a doctorate. This year's winner is Fang Yao of the University of Toronto.

The 2014 recipient of the Honorary Membership of the Statistical Society of Canada is Professor Jerald F. Lawless. This award is intended to honour an individual who has made exceptional contributions to the development of the statistical sciences in Canada and whose work has had a major impact in this country.
 

The 2014 recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is Jiahua Chen. 
 

The 2014 recipient of the Statistical Society of Canada Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work is A. John Petkau, Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. The award recognizes outstanding contributions by members of the SSC in collaborative research and applied work, the importance of which derives primarily from its relatively recent impact on a subject area outside of the statistical sciences, on an area of application, or on an organization.

Professor Mary Thompson is the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Service Award from the Statistical Society of Canada. This award honours an individual who has played an important and substantial role in fostering growth and success of the Canadian Statistical Sciences community through leadership in the SSC. Mary’s many years of strong and effective leadership have greatly benefited our society and this award is a fitting recognition for her commitment to our discipline and profession.