York University welcomes new faculty members in statistics

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York University welcomes three new faculty members in the area of statistics.

Report of the accreditation services committee

Report of the accreditation services committee.

Message from the president

SSC Board

Message from the president.

Janie Coulombe joins the Université de Montréal

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Janie Coulombe joins the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université de Montréal as an assistant professor.

2022 International Methodology Symposium: Call for papers

2022 International Methodology Symposium

Call for papers for Statistics Canada's 2022 International Methodology Symposium "Data Disaggregation: Building a more-representative data portrait of society".

CSSC’s 10th anniversary

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CSSC’s 10th anniversary.

Join us on Zoom for the 2022 CANSSI Town Hall

2022 CANSSI Town Hall

CANSSI Town Hall June 17, 2022. 

CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics 2022

Pengfei Li

This year's winner of the CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics  is Pengfei Li from the University of Waterloo.

SSC Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work 2022

Lehana Thabane

Lehana Thabane is the recipient of the 2022 Statistical Society of Canada Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work.

Honorary member 2022

Peter Macdonald

Peter Macdonald, professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics at McMaster University, has been named an honorary member of the Statistical Society of Canada.

Distinguished Service Award 2022

Edward Chen

Edward Jian Chen is the recipient of the 2022 Distinguished Service Award from the Statistical Society of Canada.

Pierre Robillard Award 2022

Janie Coulombe

Janie Coulombe from McGill University is the recipient of the Pierre Robillard Award of the Statistical Society of Canada.

SSC Gold Medalist 2022

David Stephens

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.

The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award 2022

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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.

Eh Sayers: A StatCan podcast

A StatCan podcast

Statistics Canada has published a podcast episode entitled Created Equal.

CANSSI/SSC Cross-Country Tour: Connie Stewart is up next

Poster for Connie Stewart presentation on June 17

The Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) and the SSC have organized a CANSSI/SSC Cross-Country Tour with short online seminars.

SORA-TABA Workshop & DLSPH Biostatistics Research Day

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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.

Professor Matthias Schonlau wins prestigious Humboldt Prize

Matthias Schonlau

Matthias Schonlau is the second Canadian statistician to have won the prestigious Humboldt Research Award.

Pengfei Li and Ruodu Wang named Fellows of IMS

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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).

Call for nominations—Monthly showcase of students and recent graduates

Poster specifying that SARGC is seeking nominations for a monthly showcase of students and recent graduates.

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!

Nonlinear measurements might be expected to confound, but do they belong in a statistical model hierarchy?

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A statistician and physicist were discussing an experiment over a pot of tea …