Faculty Research
  • John Brewster (Senior Scholar): experimental design, foundations of statistics, statistical decision theory, computer experimentation
  • Smiley Cheng (Senior Scholar): statistical quality control, total quality management, order statistics, statistical inference, probability, lotteries
  • Katherine Davies: point processes, spatiotemporal processes, forest fire modelling, order statistics
  • James Fu (Professor Emeritus): large sample estimation, distribution theory of runs and patterns, applications of probability, system reliability, computer-intensive statistical methods
  • Melody Ghahramani (Adjunct Professor): time series
  • Mohammad Jafari Jozani: Bayesian statistics, statistical decision theory, ranked set sampling, credibility theory, image processing
  • Brad Johnson: probability, stochastic processes, mathematical statistics, runs and patterns in permutations, Bayesian analysis
  • Theo Koulis (Statistical Advisory Service): spatiotemporal processes, interacting particle systems, sea ice modelling, functional data analysis, differential equations
  • Alexandre Leblanc: nonparametric function estimation, semi-parametric methods in regression, inference from sparse multinomial data, asymptotics, Bayesian methods, computational statistics, decision theory, copulas, robustness
  • David Loewen (Retired Staff): statistical education
  • Brian Macpherson (Senior Scholar): statistical quality control, total quality management, sampling theory, data analysis
  • Saumen Mandal: optimal regression design, design of experiments, statistical inference, linear models
  • Éric Marchand (Adjunct Professor): statistical inference, Bayesian statistics, multivariate statistics, probability constrained parameter spaces
  • Yuliya Martsynyuk: Error-in-variables models, regression models, invariance principles and related limit theorems, self-normalized and Studentized partial sums processes, domains of attraction of normal laws, nonparametric change-point analysis, Gaussian processes
  • Zenaida Mateo: statistical computing, data diagnostics, regression analysis, educational statistics
  • Rob McLeod (Adjunct Professor): experimental design
  • Seyed Moghadas (Adjunct Professor): infectious disease modelling, viral-immune dynamics, epidemiology and public health, computational biology, ecological interactions, applied dynamical systems
  • Ken Mount (Senior Scholar): statistical consulting
  • Saman Muthukumarana: Bayesian methods, computational statistics, mark-recapture methods, statistics in sports, social network analysis
  • Mrityunjay Samanta (Senior Scholar): statistical inference, nonparametric statistics, density estimation
  • A. Thavaneswaran: inference for stochastic processes, prediction, filtering, smoothing, nonlinear time series, empirical financial time series modelling, survival analysis
  • Mahmoud Torabi (Adjunct Professor): spatial and temporal models, cluster detection, small area estimation, longitudinal data analysis, generalized (general) linear mixed models, measurement error, robust statistics
  • Liqun Wang: nonlinear system identification, statistical inference and computation, errors-in-variables, measurement error, Monte Carlo methods, boundary crossing probabilities, first passage time, biostatistics, econometrics, environmetrics
  • Xikui Wang (Administrative Faculty): Markov decision processes, bandit processes, adaptive clinical trials, biostatistics, mathematical finance
  • Yanqing Yi (Adjunct Professor): statistical design and analysis for clinical trials, dependent data analysis, survival data analysis, stochastic modeling and Markov processes, statistical modeling and computation for complex data
Graduations

Congratulations to our February, 2012 graduate: Hsing-Ming Chang (Ph.D.).

Events

International Workshop on New Advances in Statistics: Theory and Applications

Important Date

February 20 – February 24: Mid-Term Break (No classes)

Upcoming Exam

STAT 1000 Midterm 1
Saturday, February 11 at 9:30 a.m.

Upcoming Seminars

Chris Bowman, Mitacs: “Introduction to Mitacs Programmes”
Thursday, February 16 at 2:45 p.m.
316 Machray Hall

Christian Genest, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University
Wednesday, February 29 at 7:00 p.m.
172 St. John's

Johanna Nešlehová, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University
Thursday, March 1 at 2:45 p.m.
316 Machray Hall

Christian Genest, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University: “Abraham De Moivre: Genius in Exile”
Friday, March 2 at 2:45 p.m.

@StatsUMan

The first STAT 1000 midterm is Saturday, Feb 11. Do you know your room? http://t.co/PcaMzuPr

Feb. 2 is Groundhog Day. Read about the results: http://t.co/YOuyu6sA but how accurate are the predictions? http://t.co/cHvSXfuD