Faculty Research (Statistics)

• Statistics Research

Ayesha Ali

• Graphical Markov models; Pollination networks; Multivariate statistics; Causal inference; Survival analysis; Bioinformatics; High performance computing; Artificial intelligence; Ecological modelling; Machine learning

Jeremy Balka

• Survival analysis; Cure rate models; Statistics education; Statistics in finance; Statistics in sports

Gerarda Darlington

• Statistical methods for correlated observations; Methods for epidemiologic and genetic epidemiologic studies; Design and analysis of cluster randomized trials

Lorna Deeth

• Infectious disease modelling; Spatial and spatiotemporal disease analysis; Environmental effect monitoring and surveillance methods; Computational statistics; Introductory undergraduate through graduate level statistics; Course content development and software implementation; Development of learning strategies and collaborative learning initiatives

Tony Desmond

• Survival analysis; Reliability modelling; Statistics in finance; Statistical learning (Big Data); Stochastic processes; History of statistics

Zeny Feng

• Statistical genetics; Statistical bioinformatics; Sequencing data analysis; Big data analysis; Infectious disease modelling; Longitudinal data analysis

Julie Horrocks

• Longitudinal and Survival data, with missing values and zero-inflation; Joint models for simultaneous modelling of longitudinal and survival data; Spatial models for epidemiology and animal abundance

Peter Kim

• Bioinformatics; Biostatistics; Clinical trials; Machine learning; Microbiology

Khurram Nadeem

• Wildland fire analytics; spatio-temporal prediction of severe and large wildfires in Canada; Statistical inference for general hierarchical models; Computational statistics; Big data analytics; Ecological modeling; Agro-environmetrics

Gary Umphrey

• Biostatistics; Evolutionary biology; Biodiversity conservation; Systematics; Myrmecology