The Department of Statistics offers courses in actuarial science,
probability theory, applied statistics, statistical computation and
theoretical statistics. The department serves as a focal point for
statistical teaching, research and consulting at the university.
Research in the department is highly ranked
internationally. The prestigious COPSS Award, the highest international
research honour in statistics which began in 1981, has only been
awarded to resident Canadians three times; and all of these were at the
University of Toronto (Nancy Reid in 1992, Rob Tibshirani in 1996 and
Jeffrey Rosenthal in 2007).
Don Fraser, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,
was the first winner of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of
Canada for his many outstanding contributions to the field of
statistical inference.
Radford Neal, jointly appointed with Computer
Science, is establishing himself as a world leader in the fields of
machine learning and statistical inference.
Jeremy Quastel , jointly appointed with Mathematics, is discovering fundamental
results about highly complex stochastic systems such as arise in fluid
mechanics. Many of our graduate students have won post- doctoral
fellowships at prestigious institutions around the world.
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