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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Now accepting TA and Course Instructor applications for the Summer 2010 session Mar 08, 2010 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 More News » 6th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society Jun 22, 2010 14th International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics Jun 17, 2010 Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistical Science May 03, 2010 Data Analysis and Statistical Foundations III Apr 30, 2010 More Events » 2009-10 Seminar Series Jun 10, 2009 Related Seminars Jun 10, 2009 Previous Seminars Jun 10, 2009 More Seminars »