Recent M.Sc. Students and Project Titles

MSc Students and Project Titles

  1. Fei Huang (2014). Quantile estimation with covariates in survey data.
  2. Aiying Shao (2012). Longitudinal analysis of BMI in National Population Health Survey.
  3. Eric McArthur (2012). Longitudinal meta-analysis of liver transplant trials.
  4. Yi Zhi Hu (2012). An investigation on the approximations by Thomas Simpson for the valuation of annuities.
  5. Ksenia Bushmeneva (2010). Statistical analysis of cross-over trials: advantages, challenges and examples.
  6. Roxana Raut (2008). Methods to analyze multiple randomized clinical trials with longitudinal outcomes. (Vivian McAlister, advisor).
  7. Jessica Jialin Sun (2007). Human Caused Fires in the Romeo Malette Forest. (joint supervision with W.J. Braun)
  8. Paul Nguyen (2006). Quantile regression.
  9. Lengyi Han (2006). Modeling the frequency of forest fires in different districts of Ontario. (joint supervision with W.J. Braun)
  10. Olga Vasilyeva (2006). Methods for categorical longitudinal survey data: sensitivity analysis in assessing drinking patterns of Canadian undergrads based on the 2004 Canadian Campus Survey.
  11. Changshen Ding (2005). A study on the joint inclusion probability and the approximations to the variance estimator.
  12. Maria Porco (2003). Variance estimation and analysis in the Rapid Risk Factor Surveillance System (RRFSS).
  13. Li Wang (2003). Truncated bivariate normal distribution.
  14. Larraine Becker (2002). Estimation of molecular relative frequency in ICS images.
  15. William Liu (2000). Double sampling for stratification and estimation of conditional means and marginal distributions with kernel density smoothing.
  16. Dezhou Sun (2000). The application of the general linear model to environmental data analysis.
  17. Susan Guo (2000). Evaluation of statistical software for complex survey data analysis.
  18. Shuqian Fu (1999). An application of local smoothing techniques to the Ontario Health Survey data.
  19. Walter Heber (1999). The analysis of crossover experimental designs: a methodology review.
  20. Selina McDonald (1999). A mortality study of London Life’s individual insurances policies which were issued without evidences.
  21. Feng Qiu (1998). Effect of bin size on the kernel density estimate for complex survey data.
  22. Parnaz Motlagh-Arani (1998). Analysis of epilepsy within the 1994 National Population Health Survey.
  23. Richard Tyler (1997). Density estimation of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy data.
  24. Ellis Hou (1997). Density estimation and data analysis from the Ontario Health Survey.
  25. Christine Fallahay (1997). Complex survey analysis of epilepsy with the 1990 Ontario Health Survey.
  26. Lamia Abid (1996). Effect of skewness in the distribution of interest rates on life insurance functions.
  27. Li Jianjun (1996). A study of actuarial product design methodology at London Life in Canada and its application to the Taiwan market.
  28. Joseph Raaymakers (1995). Models for interest rates.
  29. Stephane Sancartier (1993). On the modeling of the bubonic plague.
  30. Maher Issa (1993). A meta-analysis of the effect of the immunosupressive treatments for multiple sclerosis in four clinical trials.  (joint supervision with J.C. Baskerville)
  31. Ebenezer Lartey (1993). Lotto 6/49 - is it a fair game?
  32. Philip Ragama (1992). Incidence of sugarcane smut disease in Mumias, Kenya.
  33. Peter Nikolopoulos (1991). Prediction of NHL hockey playoff games:  an application of logistic regression.
  34. Ward Warkentin (1989). Statistical analysis of the edge pattern of car windows.
  35. Jane Hohenadel (1988). A review of estimation techniques for qx.
  36. Catherine Bennett (1987). Model-based estimation for artifact frequencies of archaeological midden data.
  37. Clive Eastwood (1987). Assessment of diagnostic tests subject to equivocal and/or uninterpretable results.
  38. David Rylett (1986). Computational methods for variance-covariance estimation in complex sample surveys.
  39. Jo-Ann Valz (1986). Analysis of midden data in Iroquoian archaeological sites.
  40. Sharon-Lise Normand (1985). Analysis of longhouse data from the Draper Site.
  41. Louise Rheaume (1985). Analysis of Iroquoian settlement patterns.
  42. Kathleen Ferguson (1982). Regression estimation in complex surveys, a review.
  43. Leonard MacWilliam (1982). Computation of joint inclusion probabilities in several pps sampling designs without replacement.

MSc Students and Thesis Titles

  1. Lori Murray (2012). The construction of Edmond Halley’s 1701 map of magnetic declination.
  2. Elizabeth Renouf (2010). Establishing benchmarks for predictive performance in liver transplant survival models.

PhD Students and Thesis Titles

  1. Elizabeth Renouf (2016). Joint outcome modelling in liver transplantation (jointly supervised with Charmaine Dean and Vivian McAlister).
  2. Lori Murray (2016). Data smoothing techniques: historical and modern (jointly supervised with Duncan Murdoch).
  3. Zilin Wang (2004). Some nonparametric regression techniques for complex survey data.
  4. Kathleen Lawry (1990). Topics in spatial sampling and experimental design.