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David Thomson, SSC Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work 2013

David Thomson

The 2013 recipient of the Statistical Society of Canada Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work is Professor David J. Thomson, Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen’s University, Kingston. 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.

 

Derek Bingham, CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics 2013

Derek Bingham

Derek Bingham was born in 1968 in Pointe Claire, Quebec.  He lived in the Montreal region (from Beloeil to Dollard) while growing up, with a brief one-year stay in Hawaii.  His academic trajectory includes a DEC at Champlain College in 1988 and a BSc in Applied Mathematics at Concordia University in 1991.  After several co-op jobs that were entirely statistical in nature, he decided to pursue a MSc in Statistics at Carleton University where he received the Senate Medal in 1994 for his thesis work.

Zhong Guan, Jing Qin and Biao Zhang , Lauréats du prix de La revue canadienne de statistique 2013

Zhong Guan
 Jing Qin
Biao Zhang

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 “Information borrowing methods for covariate-adjusted ROC curve” (Volume 40, no. 3, pp. 569-587) by Zhong Guan, Jing Qin and Biao Zhang.

 

Bei Chen, Récipiendaire du prix Pierre-Robillard 2012

Bei Chen


Bei Chen est la récipiendaire du Prix Pierre-Robillard 2011 de la Société statistique du Canada. Ce prix est attribué à la meilleure thèse doctorale en probabilité ou statistique soutenue dans une université canadienne au cours de l’année. La thèse de Bei Chen s’intitule « Linearization Methods in Time Series Analysis ». Elle a été rédigée à la University of Waterloo sous la supervision de Bovas Abraham et Yulia Gel.
 

Changbao Wu, CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics 2012

Changbao Wu

Professor Changbao Wu, from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo, is the 2012 winner of the CRM-SSC Prize. Awarded annually by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (Montréal) and the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), this prestigious prize recognizes a statistical scientist's professional accomplishments in research during the first fifteen years after earning a doctorate.

Chong Gu and Ping Ma, Lauréats du prix de La revue canadienne de statistique 2012

Chong Gu
Ping Ma

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 "Nonparametric regression with cross-classified responses" (vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 591-609) by Chong Gu and Ping Ma.

David Binder, SSC Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work 2012

David Binder

At its Annual Meeting held in Guelph, Ontario, June 3-6, the Statistical Society of Canada announced that David A. Binder is the 2012 recipient of the Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work. The award recognizes outstanding contributions by SSC members 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.

James O. Ramsay, membre honoraire de la SSC, 2012

James O. Ramsay

James O. Ramsay, professeur émérite à l’Université McGill, a été nommé membre honoraire de la Société statistique du Canada. La SSC confère ce titre aux statisticiens qui se sont distingués par leurs contributions au développement de la discipline au pays. La nomination a été annoncée lors du congrès annuel 2012 de la Société à Guelph (Ontario).
 

Récipiendaires du prix Lise-Manchester 2012 : Geoffrey Fong, David Hammond and Mary Thompson

Geoffrey Fong
David Hammond
Mary Thompson

Geoffrey Fong, David Hammond et Mary Thompson sont les lauréats 2012 du prix Lise-Manchester. Ce prix bisannuel est offert par la Société statistique du Canada pour rappeler l’intérêt marqué que feu Dr Lise Manchester portait à l’étude de sujets de société au moyen de méthodes statistiques. Le prix souligne l’excellence de travaux de recherche statistique portant sur des problèmes d’intérêt général et susceptibles d’influencer l’élaboration des politiques publiques au Canada.

Román Viveros-Aguilera, Prix pour services insignes 2012

Román Viveros-Aguilera

Román Viveros-Aguilera, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, is the recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Service Award of the Statistical Society of Canada. The announcement was made at the opening of the Society's Annual Meeting held in Guelph, ON, June 3-6, 2012. The award recognizes a member of the SSC who has made substantial contributions to the running or welfare of the SSC over a period of several years. It rewards devotion and service to statistics in Canada as shown by exceptional service to the SSC.

David Binder, Prix pour services insignes 2011

David Binder
The 2011 SSC Distinguished Service Award is conferred to David A. Binder, retired Director General of the Methodology Branch at Statistics Canada. The announcement was made at the Society’s Annual Meeting held in Wolfville, NS on June 12-15. The distinction is awarded to an SSC member who has made substantial contributions to the running or welfare of the SSC, over a period of several years.

Isabel Molina and J.N.K. Rao, Lauréats du prix de La revue canadienne de statistique 2011

Isabel Molina
J.N.K. Rao
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 “Small area estimation of poverty indicators” (vol. 38, no 3, pp. 369-385), by Isabel Molina and J.N.K.

Abdel H. El-Shaarawi, SSC Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work 2010

Abdel H. El-Shaarawi

Professor Abdel H. El-Shaarawi is the 2010 recipient of the SSC Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work. The award recognizes outstanding contributions by a member of the SSC that have made relatively recent impact on an organization or a subject area that is not cognate with the statistical sciences.

David R. Brillinger, membre honoraire de la SSC, 2010

David Ross Brillinger

David R. Brillinger, professeur de statistique à l’Université de Californie à Berkeley, est dorénavant membre honoraire de la SSC. Cette nomination, rendue publique lors du congrès annuel de la Société tenu à Québec en mai 2010, souligne la carrière exceptionnelle du professeur Brillinger et sa contribution au développement de la statistique au Canada.