Welcome to the Department of Statistics at the University of Toronto

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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Nancy Reid is the recipient of the F. N. David Award Oct 06, 2009 STA1008HF is only offered on the UTM campus Sep 11, 2009 2008-09 TA Awards Jun 08, 2009 The Department of Statistics is now accepting TA applications for the 2009-2010 academic year Jun 05, 2009 More News » Seminar: New Multi-Sample Nonparametric Tests for Panel Count and Current Status Data (N. Balakrishnan) Nov 26, 2009 Seminar: Some Statistical Thinking in the Analysis of Neural Spike Train Data (Robert E. Kass) Nov 19, 2009 Seminar: Some Recent Developments in Sufficient Dimension Reduction (Lexin Li) Nov 05, 2009 Seminar: Experiential Learning in Statistics: Expanding its role (Larry Weldon) Oct 29, 2009 More Events » 2009-10 Seminar Series Jun 10, 2009 Related Seminars Jun 10, 2009 Previous Seminars Jun 10, 2009 More Seminars »