On December 22, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly established February 11 as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science “to recognize the critical role women and girls play in science and technology”.
With this post we want to recognize and profile women in statistical sciences at CANSSI Ontario partner universities.
Thank you to everyone for kindly participating in this post and on the CANSSI Ontario Twitter feed.
| Name/Title | Featured Works | Card |
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| Tianyu Guan, Assistant Professor | Guan, T., Lin, Z., and Cao, J., Estimating Truncated Functional Linear Models with a Nested Group Bridge Approach, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Volume 29,2020, 620-6282. Guan, T., Nguyen, R., Cao, J., and Swartz, T., In-Game Win Probabilities for the National Rugby League, 2021, accepted by Annals of Applied Statistics |  |
| Xiaojin Xu, Professor | X. Xu, and S. Sinha, 2021. Robust Designs for Generalized Linear Mixed Models with Possible Misspecification. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 210, 20-41. X. Xu, and M. Krzeminski, 2018. Optimal Designs for Accelerated Life Tests with Multiple Stress Factors and Heteroscedasticity. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 47(6), 1273-1306. |  |
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| Sharon McNicholas, Assistant Professor | McNicholas, S.M., McNicholas, P.D. and Ashlock, D. (2020). ‘An Evolutionary Algorithm with Crossover and Mutation for Model-Based Clustering’, Journal of Classification, 38(2), 264-279. Ashlock, D. and McNicholas, S. (2013), ‘Fitness landscapes of evolved apoptotic cellular automata.’ IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 17(2), 198–212. |  |
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| Hwashin Hyun Shin, Adjunct Associate Professor | Research Scientist, Health Canada | Sex-difference in air pollution-related acute circulatory and respiratory mortality and hospitalization. Shin et al. Sci Total Environ. 2022. Comparison of hospitalization and mortality associated with short-term exposure to ambient ozone and PM2.5 in Canada. Shin et al. Chemosphere. 2021. |  |
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| Charmaine Dean, Professor and Vice-President, Research and International | Dexen DZ. Xi & C.B. Dean & Stephen W. Taylor, 2020. "Modeling the duration and size of extended attack wildfires as dependent outcomes," Environmetrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(5), August. Nadeem Khurram, Taylor S. W., Woolford Douglas G., Dean C. B. (2019) Mesoscale spatiotemporal predictive models of daily human- and lightning-caused wildland fire occurrence in British Columbia. International Journal of Wildland Fire 29, 11-27. |  |
| Liqun Diao, Research Assistant Professor | Yang, C., Diao, L. & Cook, R.. (2021). Survival Trees for Current Status Data. Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Survival Prediction - Algorithms, Challenges, and Applications 2021, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 146:83-94 Haoxin Zhuang, Liqun Diao, Grace Y. Yi, A Vine Copula Model for Climate Trend Analysis using Canadian Temperature Data, J. data sci. 19(2021), no. 1, 37-55, DOI 10.6339/21-JDS997 |  |
| Lucy Gao, Assistant Professor | Lucy L. Gao, Jacob Bien, and Daniela Witten (2021+) Selective inference for hierarchical clustering. Lucy L. Gao and Julie Zhou (2020). Minimax D-optimal designs for multivariate regression models with multi-factors. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 209, 160-173. |  |
| Lan Wen, Assistant Professor | Wen, Lan & Hernán, Miguel & Robins, James. (2021). Multiply robust estimators of causal effects for survival outcomes. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 10.1111/sjos.12561. Wen L, Terrera GM, Seaman SR. Methods for handling longitudinal outcome processes truncated by dropout and death. Biostatistics. 2018 Oct 1;19(4):407-425. doi: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxx045. Erratum in: Biostatistics. 2018 Oct 1;19(4):594. PMID: 29028922; PMCID: PMC5971107. |  |
| Yingli Qin, Associate Professor | Wu, Y.*, Qin, Y., and Zhu, M. (2020). High-dimensional covariance matrix estimation using a low- rank and diagonal decomposition. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 48(2), 308-337 Wu, Y.*, Qin, Y., and Zhu, M. (2019). Quadratic discriminant analysis for high-dimensional data. Statistica Sinica, 29, 939-960. |  |
| Fan Yang, Assistant Professor | Cui, H.; Tan, K.S.; Yang, F. (2021) Diversification in catastrophe insurance markets. ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA, 51(3), 753–778. Ji, L.; Tan, K.S.; Yang, F. (2021) Tail dependence and heavy tailedness in extreme risks. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 99, 282–293. |  |
| Leilei Zeng, Associate Professor | Zeng L, Cook RJ and Lee JY. "Multistate analysis from cross-sectional and auxiliary samples", Statistics in Medicine, 39(4) 387-408, 2020. Iraniparast M, Shi Y, Wu Y, Zeng L, Maxwell C, Kryscio R, John P, SantaCruz K and Tyas S. “Cognitive reserve predicts transition from MCI to intact cognition vs progression to dementia”, Neurology, DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000200051, Feb 4, 2022. |  |
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| Camila P.E. de Souza, Assistant Professor | P. E. de Souza, C., Andronescu, M., Masud, T., Kabeer, F., Biele, J., et al. (2020) Epiclomal: Probabilistic clustering of sparse single-cell DNA methylation data. PLOS Computational Biology 16(9): e1008270. Randhawa, Gurjit S., Maximillian P.M. Soltysiak, Hadi El Roz, Camila P. E. de Souza, Kathleen A. Hill, and Lila Kari, (2020) Machine learning using intrinsic genomic signatures for rapid classification of novel pathogens: COVID-19 case study. PLOS ONE. |  |
| Kristina Sendova, Associate Professor and Chair, Statistical and Actuarial Sciences | Kristina P. Sendova & Leda D. Minkova (2020) Introducing the non-homogeneous compound-birth process, Stochastics, 92:5, 814-832, DOI: 10.1080/17442508.2019.1666132 |  |
| Grace Yi, Professor | G. Y. Yi , A. Delaigle, and P. Gustafson (2021). Handbook of Measurement Error Models. Chapman & Hall/CRC. G. Y. Yi (2017). Statistical Analysis with Measurement Error or Misclassification: Strategy, Method and Application. Springer Science+Business Media LLC, New York. |  |
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| Xu (Sunny) Wang, Associate Professor | Longlong Feng*, Xu Wang (2021). Automate Obstructive Sleep Apnea Diagnosis Using Convolutional Neural Networks. AMMCS 2019: Recent Developments in Mathematical, Statistical and Computational Sciences. PROMS, Volume 342, Pages 521-531. Online, 30 August 2021. Emily T. Winn*, Marilyn Vazquez, Prachi Loliencar, Kaisa Taipale, Xu Wang, and Giseon Heo (2021). A Survey of Statistical Learning Techniques as Applied to Inexpensive Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea Data. The Women in Data Science 2019 Proceedings: Advances in Data Science. December 2021, Springer. |  |
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| Yuejiao Cindy Fu, Associate Professor | Liu, G., Fu, Y., Liu, W., and Mu, R. (2021). Testing homogeneity in contaminated mixture models. The Canadian Journal of Statistics. Liu, G., Fu, Y., Zhang, J., Pu, X. and Wang, B. (2020). EM-test for homogeneity in a two-sample problem with a mixture structure, Journal of Applied Statistics, 47:4, 724-738. |  |
| Hanna Jankowski, Professor | Fadoua Balabdaoui. Cécile Durot. Hanna Jankowski. "Least squares estimation in the monotone single index model." Bernoulli 25 (4B) 3276 - 3310, Nov 2019. |  |