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The Department of Statistics of the University of British Columbia is pleased to announce a new admission stream.

UBC Statistics professors Alexandre Bouchard-Côté and Trevor Campbell are co-leading, in collaboration with Philippe Gagnon (UdeM) and Liangliang Wang (SFU), a new CANSSI Collaborative Research Team (CRT) project on distributed MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) methods.

The Statistics Department offers several types of free statistical consultation, via STAT 450/550/540, SOS, and STAT 551, as follows:

As you know, Associate Professor Marie Auger-Méthé was recently named a new member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. This Friday, November 8, she will be formally inducted as a Member of the Royal Society of Canada.

We are thrilled to announce that Marie Auger-Méthé, Associate Professor in Statistics and the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, has been named one of the new members of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).

This year’s recipients of the Dr. John and Barbara Petkau Scholarships are Jessie Liang and Jade Bouchard!

The Statistics Department offers several types of free statistical consultation, via STAT 551, SOS and STAT 450/550/540, as follows:

Parham Pishrobat, a master's student in Statistics, earned the second prize for his oral presentation in the master’s section at the 12th Annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference (CSSC), held on June 1, 2024, at Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Evan Sidrow was awarded the Student Oral Presentation Award at the 2024 Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society (WNAR) student paper competition.

From July 8 to July 10, 2024, Katie Burak, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Statistics, led the Data Science Camp for Girls at UBC Vancouver Campus.