Awards/Grants

Award in Survey Methods for Students

The Survey Methods Section of the Statistical Society of Canada is announcing a student award for the best paper in survey methods presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada. This award is open to all students registered at a Canadian university at any time in 2007. The paper must be presented in a session at the 2007 meeting and submitted to the editor of the Proceedings of the Survey Methods Section by the proceedings deadline (normally in September). The student must be the sole or the lead author, but does not have to be the presenter at the meeting. Proof of enrolment at a Canadian university should be submitted along with the paper.

A panel of experts appointed by the Executive of the Survey Methods Section will judge the papers submitted. The award will consist of a plaque and a $500 prize. The award will be announced in Liaison and on the SSC Web-site.

Questions about this award can be addressed to Milorad Kovacevic, President of the Survey Methods Section.

Student Paper Awards for 2004, 2005 and 2006

We are pleased to announce that Xiaojian Xu from the Brocks University (at that time a student at the University of Alberta) has won the 2006 award of $500 for her paper co-authored with Pierre Lavallée from Statistics Canada entitled “Treatments for Link Nonresponse in Indirect Sampling”. We would like to thank the authors who submitted their papers. All papers submitted to the Proceedings of the Survey Methods Section can be accessed through the “Proceedings” link at the top left of this page.

The 2005 best paper was awarded to Norberto Pantoja-Galicia of University of Waterloo for his paper (co-authored with Mary Thompson and Milorad Kovacevic) “A Bivariate Density Estimation Approach Using Data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics: An Example of Testing Order of Job Loss and Divorce”.

For 2004 the winners were Emanuel Benhin of Statistics Canada, at that time a student at Carleton University, for the paper “Analysis of Categorical Data from Complex Sample Surveys Using Inverse Sampling” and Zilin Wang of Wilfred Laurier University, at that time a student at the University of Western Ontario, for the paper (with David Bellhouse) “Shift Function Plots for Regression Fitting”.

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