Current Ph.D. Students

1. Geva Maimon, Ph.D. in Statistics: Bayesian Analysis of Forensic DNA Evidence, co-

supervised with Dr. James Curran, Dept. of Statistics, now University of Auckland, New

Zealand. Winter 2004 - current. Expected completion date: Summer 2008.

Former Ph.D. Students

2. Katia Charland, Ph.D. in Biostatistics: Evaluation of ful ly Bayesian disease mapping models

in correctly identifying high-risk areas with an application to Multiple Sclerosis, co-supervised

with Dr. Christina Wolfson, Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, completed September

2007.

3. Nicholas Chamandy, Ph.D. in Statistics: Inference for Asymptotical ly Gaussian Random

Fields, co-supervised with Dr. Keith Worsley, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, com-

pleted October 2007.

4. Genevieve Lefebvre, Ph.D. in Statistics: Practical issues in modern Monte Carlo integra-

tion, co-supervised with Dr. Alain Vandal, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, completed

August 2007.

Current M.Sc. Students

5. Mireille Schnitzer, M.Sc. in Statistics: Missing Longitiduinal Data and the Health Activities

Questionnaire in Scleroderma Patients, co-supervised with Dr. Marie Hudson, Rheumatology.

Winter 2008- current. Expected completion data: Spring 2009.

6. Kristian Thorlund, M.Sc. in Statistics (University of Copenhagen): Missing data and the

analysis of multi-treatment data via meta-analysis, co-supervised with Dr. Robert Platt, Dept.

of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Dr. Soren Nielsen, Statistics Division, University of

Copenhagen. Winter 2008 - current. Expected completion date: Summer 2008.

7. Reza Modarres Na jafabadi, M.Sc. in Computer Science: Short-term prediction of finan-

ical indices using support vector regression, co-supervised wth Dr. Doina Precup, School of

Computer Science. Winter 2007 - current. Expected completion date: Summer 2008.

Former M.Sc. Students

8. Marilyse Julien, M.Sc. in Statistics: Development of a New Disease Activity Index for

Systemic Sclerosis, completed August 2008.

9. Michelle Ross, M.Sc. in Statistics, A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Birth Weight

in the Presence of Gestational Age Error, co-supervised with Dr. Robert Platt, Dept. of

Epidemiology and Biostatistics, completed August 2007.

10. James Hubbard, M.Sc. in Statistics: Bayesian Analysis of a Poisson Mixed Effects Model.,

completed August 2006.

11. Yuan-yuan Hua, M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, The use of clustering techniques to analyze

genetic data, co-supervised with Dr. Nilima Nigam, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics,

completed Winter 2006.

12. Matt A. Taddy, M.Sc. in Statistics: Neural Network Classification of Treatment Efficacy

for Colorectal Cancer Patients, completed Summer 2005.

13. Hiba Naccache, M.Sc. in Statistics: Smal l Sample Inter-rater and Intra-rater Agreement in

the Diagnosis of Nailfold Abnormalities, completed Summer 2004.

14. Peiheng Xu, M.Sc. in Statistics: The Effect of Utilizing Spatial Information for Brain Image

Segmentation, completed Fall 2004.

15. Geva Maimon, M.Sc. in Statistics: Bayesian Spatial Analysis of Forensic Glass Data, co-

supervisor Dr. James Curran, Univ. of Waikato, completed Fall 2004.