News

The Department of Statistics is soliciting nominations for the Department of Statistics Award in Data Science, an award to recognize the importance of developing and applying tools to answer important questions through the analysis of data.

Jiaping (Olivia) Liu, a senior PhD student in our graduate program, has been awarded the prestigious BC Graduate Scholarship (BCGS) for her outstanding contributions to the field of computational statistics and computational biology.

The Department of Statistics at the University of British Columbia is pleased to offer "Data Science Essentials: Statistics, Tools, and Techniques" as part of the UBC Vancouver Summer Program.

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: