York University welcomes three new faculty members in the area of statistics.
Janie Coulombe joins the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université de Montréal as an assistant professor.
Call for papers for Statistics Canada's 2022 International Methodology Symposium "Data Disaggregation: Building a more-representative data portrait of society".
This year's winner of the CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics is Pengfei Li from the University of Waterloo.
Lehana Thabane is the recipient of the 2022 Statistical Society of Canada Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work.
Peter Macdonald, professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics at McMaster University, has been named an honorary member of the Statistical Society of Canada.
Edward Jian Chen is the recipient of the 2022 Distinguished Service Award from the Statistical Society of Canada.
Janie Coulombe from McGill University is the recipient of the Pierre Robillard Award of the Statistical Society of Canada.
This year’s recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is David A. Stephens, professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University.
This year’s winner of the Canadian Journal of Statistics Award is the article entitled “On Logistic Box-Cox Regression for Flexibly Estimating the Shape and Strength of Exposure-Disease Relationships” (Volume 49, Issue 3, pp. 808–825) by Li Xing, Xuekui Zhang, Igor Burstyn, and Paul Gustafson.
Statistics Canada has published a podcast episode entitled Created Equal.
The Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) and the SSC have organized a CANSSI/SSC Cross-Country Tour with short online seminars.
In May, the Southern Ontario Regional Association of the Statistical Society of Canada (SORA) with the Toronto Area Biostatistics Association (TABA) and the Division of Biostatistics at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), University of Toronto, held their annual Workshop and Biostatistics Research Day.
Matthias Schonlau is the second Canadian statistician to have won the prestigious Humboldt Research Award.
Pengfei Li and Ruodu Wang of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at University of Waterloo have been named Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).
Do you know a student or recent graduate who is awe-inspiring to the SSC community? By nominating a student or recent graduate in statistics-related fields, you are honouring their contributions and accomplishments, and recognizing and celebrating their inspiring stories on a national scale. Nominations for SARGC’s monthly showcase of students and recent graduates are now open!
A statistician and physicist were discussing an experiment over a pot of tea …