Past SSO events

Fall 2009: Our Statistics Community and Workshop

Presentations

• A Statistical Modeling Process for Developing Prediction Profiles using Administrative Prescription Data. Delbert Stewart, Brogan Inc.
• Shrinkage estimation of expression fold change as an alternative to testing hypotheses of equivalent expression. Zahra, Montazeri, University of Ottawa.
• 10 things you should know about meta-analysis. Nick Barrowman, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.
• Cancer, Arsenic, Mortality and Their Relationship. Virendra Bharti.
• Explaining Perinatal Health Outcomes in the Province of Ontario: A study of differences in small area outcomes and predictors. David Williams, University of Ottawa.
• Workshop: Creating More Effective Graphs. Naomi Robbins.

First Annual Statistical Society of Ottawa SSO Student Research Day

The SSO held its first student research day at the University of Ottawa on Sept. 11 and it was a great success. It was sponsored by the Statistical Society of Ottawa, the University of Ottawa Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine and Carleton University School of Mathematics and Statistics. The SSO created this opportunity for students from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University to show off their statistical research to the SSO community. The event will alternate between the two universities each year.

The following students gave twenty minute presentations:
Robert Davies, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa
Ahmed Almaskut, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University
Ahalya Sivathayalan, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University
Maryam Khan, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University Of Ottawa
Chris Gravel, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University

All of the presentations were excellent and the SSO community was very enthusiastic. The first prize was split between Robert Davies and Ahmed Almaskut ($300 each) and each of the other students was awarded $100 for their presentations.:

An R workshop was presented by Dr. Rafal Kulik in the afternoon. This introduction to R included presented the code and application for many statistical methods including simulation, bootstrap and random matrices.

Many thanks to the Centre de recherches mathématiques for contributing $500 and to the University of Ottawa Department of Mathematics and Statistics for its substantial involvement in organizing the day.

It is an event well worth repeating!

SSO Second Seminar Networking Lunch

January 16, 2009, 11:30-1:30
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Foustanellas Auditorium (2nd level, follow signs)
40 Ruskin St. (part of Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus)

The SSO has organized its second networking seminar luncheon on Friday, January 16, 2009 from 11:30 until 1:30 at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Foustanellas Auditorium (2nd level, follow signs), 40 Ruskin St. (part of The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus). There is lots of hospital parking nearby and bus access is also easy (if available).

Our speaker will be Dr. Stephen Walter, Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University and the first recipient of the Statistical Society of Canada Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work in May 2008. The title is “Do you want your doctor to be an expert?”

This seminar networking lunch has been organized to respond to the top two picks of “How the SSO can help you” discussion at our 2007 Fall Seminar luncheon – seminars and networking lunches. More details will be provided soon on the SSO website http://www.ssc.ca/ottawa/main_e.html.

If you would like to attend, please RSVP to sso.ottawa.canada@gmail.com by Jan. 14. There is no cost.

Networking Lunch Poster

SSO Annual General Meeting

June 25, 2009, 11:30-1:30
au Petit Bill’s Bistro, 1293 Wellington Street

Agenda

SSO Student Awards given at the CSEB/APHEO meeting May 25-27, 2009

Awards (alphabetically)

• Erin Graves, University of Western Ontario. The effects of obesity, gestational diabetes, and diet on excess fetal growth. Poster presentation
• John Snelgrove, University of Western Ontario. A latent class approach to the association between socioeconomic trajectories and work-limiting disability. Oral presentation.
• Chad Tosevski, Brock University. The relationship between body mass index and breast cancer recurrence and breast cancer-specific survival. Oral presentation.

SSO Spring Symposium and Workshop - April 8-9, 2009.

Presentations

• Janice Derr, U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Keynote Address: Professional Development for Statisticians: Useful Skills in a Multi-Disciplinary Setting.
• Judy-Anne Chapman, National Cancer Institute of Canada and SSC Accreditation Chair of Programming. Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)Accreditation –The Canadian Model.
• Neil Arnason, University of Manitoba and Chair SSC Accreditation Committee. SSC Accreditation: Current Challenges and Future Directions.
• David McDonald, University of Ottawa. Academic Consulting.
• Tim Ramsay, University of Ottawa. Challenges: how should we train biostatisticians?
• Nick Barrowman,Children’s Hospital of East Ontario. Experiences in consulting for medical research.
• Tracey Bushnik, Statistics Canada. How to communicate results: Experiences from the Data Interpretation Workshop at Statistics Canada.
• Judy-Anne Chapman, National Cancer Institute of Canada and SSC Accreditation Chair of Programming. Professional Development for SSC Accredited: P.Stat., A.Stat.
• Janice Derr, U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Let’s Talk: Communication Skills for Statisticians: Asking Good Questions.
• Janice Derr, U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Let’s Talk: Communication Skills for Statisticians. Talking About Statistics.
• Janice Derr, U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Let’s Talk: Communication Skills for Statisticians: Presenting Statistics in a Multi-Disciplinary Setting.

Networking Lunch. January 16, 2009

Presentation

• Do you want your surgeon to be an expert? Stephen D. Walker, Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University.

Fall 2008: Our Statistical Community

Presentations

• David Binder, Statistics Canada (retired). Can Survey Bootstrap Replicates be Used for Cross-Validation?
• James Ramsay, McGill (retired). A functional data analysis look at prairie weather.
• John C. Nash, Telfer School of Management (retired). Did I really retire? How R, Gnumeric and related projects will keep me busy.
• David McDonald, University of Ottawa. On-line quality control using Voronoi depth.
• Karelyn Davis, Statistics Canada, Chul Gyu Park and Sanjoy Sinha, Carleton University. Analysis of Clustered Data Under Inequality Constraints: An Application to the Youth Smoking Survey.
• Steven Hawken, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine. Common Genetic Variants as Markers of Cancer Risk.
• William Ross, Health Canada. P-values, statistical evidence and the safety of genetically modified foods.
• Andy Ni and Nick Barrowman, Children’s Hospital of East Ontario. Statistical consulting at CHEO.

Spring 2008: Symposium: Applied Time Series and Forecasting, and Workshop: Back to the Basics of Time Series and Forecasting

Presentations

• Determining if a Time Series is Stationary. David Dickey, North Carolina State University.
• Continuous Individualized Multiorgan Variability Analysis: real-time bedside time-series monitoring. Andrew Seely, Ottawa Health Research Institute.
• Long Range Dependence in Time Series Analysis. Mohamedou Ould Haye, Carleton University.
• Applied Time Series Methods at Statistics Canada. Benoit Quenneville, Statistics Canada.
• Robust estimation in unit root time series with infinite variance errors and their resampling. Mahmoud Zarepour, University of Ottawa.
• Workshhop: Back to the Basics of Time Series and Forecasting. David Dickey, North Carolina State University.

SSO First Seminar Networking Lunch. February 15, 2008

Presentation

• Should scientists share their data, even if there’s nothing in it for themselves? George Wells, Professor and Past Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa and Director, Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre, University of Ottawa Heart Institute.

Fall 2007: Our Statistical Community and R Workshop

Presentations

• Introduction. Kathryn Williams, President SSO
• Is it ethical to stop a clinical trial early? Tim Ramsay, University of Ottawa
• Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining Research at CSE and the Cryptologic Research Institute. Francois Théberge, University of Ottawa
• Are Bayesian Methods Appropriate for Survey Analysis? David Binder, (Retired) Statistics Canada
• Development and validation of toxicogenomic tools for regulatory toxicology. Andrew Williams, Health Canada
• A Practical Bootstrap Method for Testing Hypotheses from Survey Data. Jean-François Beaumont, Statistics Canada
• Methods for Summarizing Projected Mortality Rate Changes. Kevin Brand, University of Ottawa
• Lunch Discussion: “How can the SSO help you?”
• Workshop: Basics of R Statistical Software. Duncan Murdock, University of Western Ontario.

June 2007: Annual General Meeting

Presentation

• The ITERation project. Joseph Potvin, Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat.

Spring 2007: Symposium: Measuring the Nation’s Well-being and Workshop: Applied Bayesian Methods

Presentations

• A spatial-temporal model for the effects of short-term exposure to urban ambient air pollution and health. R. T. Burnett, Health Canada.
• Climate change: A review of the science. Konrad Gajewski,University of Ottawa.
• A comparison of classification models for identifying chronic diseases cases and non-cases in administrative claims data. Lisa Lix, University of Manitoba.
• GLT (Good Life Time) – An approach to measuring wellbeing. Michael C. Wolfson, Statistics Canada.
• Workshop: Applied Bayesian Methods. Michael Escobar, University of Toronto.

Fall 2006 Seminar: Our Statistics Community

Presentations

• David Binder
• D.R.Thomas and Y.J. Decady
• Edward Hughes
• John Nash
• Caroline Pelletier
• Martin Pantel
• Sultan
• Yiwen Chen

April 2006 Symposium: New Frontiers in Statistics

Presentations

• An ODE to Statistics: Data Analysis for System Dynamics. Giles Hooker, McGill University.
• Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases. Alan Karr, National Institute of Statistical Sciences (North Carolina).
• Statistical Analysis of Forest Fire Activity. David Martell, University of Toronto.
• Clustering Categorical Data in Large Databases. Steven Wang, York University.
• Convergent Data Sharpening Applied to Lightning. Douglas Woolford, University of Western Ontario.
• Rare Target Detection with LAGO. Mu Zhu, Universtity of Waterloo.

June 2005: Annual General Meeting

Presentation

• Small scale fluctuations statistics and multiscale simulations. Anne Bourlioux, University of Montreal.

Fall 2004: Our Statistical Community

Presentations

• Nick Barrowman
• Gail Butler
• Andre Dabrowski
• Claude Girard
• Suzelle Giroux
• Hwashin Hyun Shin, Tim Ramsay, and Daniel Krewski
• John Nash
• Keith O’Rourke
• Michèle Provencher
• Dena Schanzer
• Kathryn A. Williams

June 2003: Annual General Meeting

Presentation

• The Time-Series of SARS in the Eyes of Statisticians, Mathematical Modellers, Medical Doctors and the Public. Ping Yan, Health Canada

February 2003 Symposium: Statistical Issues in Genetics Research

Presentations

• Assessment of Genetic Heterogeneity Using Regression Models for Allele Sharing. Shelly B. Bull, Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto
• Bounds on a Composite Measure of Linkage Disequilibrium: Application to Genetic Screening. David Hamilton, Dalhousie University; David Cole, University of Toronto
• Application of DNA Microarray Technology in Environmental Health Sciences. Paul A. White, Health Canada; Andrew Williams, Health Canada
• The Statistical Analysis of Quantitative Traits. J.C. Loredo-Osti, McGill University

February 2002 Symposium: Exploring choices for statistical computing and graphics: Open source and proprietary options

Presentations

• R and Modern Statistical Computing. Robert Gentleman, Harvard School of Public Health.
• Trends in statistical graphics. Leland Wilkinson, SPSS Inc.
• An overview and categorization of downloadable statistical software. John Nash, University of Ottawa

Discussants

• Jim Ramsay, McGill University
• Jack Gambino, Statistics Canada
• Robert Garrett, Natural Resources Canada

December 2001: Seminar SSO

Presentation

• Statistical Evidence in the Federal Pay Equity Settlement. Alan Sunter and Paul Durber

December 2000: Christmas Seminar

Presentation

• Neyman-Pearson versus Health Policy: opportunities for professional statisticians. William Ross, Health Canada.

October 2000 Seminar: Spatial Statistics: Recent Advances and Applications to Environmental Modelling and Prediction

Presentations

• Spatial Statistical Analysis of Data using Geostatistical and GIS Tools. Noel Cressie, Ohio State University

• Spatial/Environmental Assessment of Natural Resources using Information Theory. Michel Phipps, University of Ottawa

May 2000: Annual General Meeting

Presentation

• Accreditation for Statisticians in Canada. Sheryl Bartlett, Health Canada.

February 2000 Symposium: Small Area Estimation

Presentations

• An Introduction to Small Area Estimation and its Practice at Statistics Canada. Jack Gambino and Peter Dick, Statistics Canada.
• Some Recent Advances in Model-Based Small Area Estimation. J. N.K. Rao, Carleton University
• Evaluating Small-Area Estimation of School-Age Children in Poverty in the U.S. Graham Kalton, Westat.
• Design Consistent Small Area Estimates of Drug Use. Prevalence by Age Group for States. Ralph E. Folsom Research Triangle Institute.

December 1999: Christmas Seminar

Presentation

• Canada’s International Productivity Performance: Is there a Problem? Andrew Sharpe, Centre for the Study of Living Standards.