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Statistics Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal's advice on understanding COVID-19 numbers

March 31, 2020

For weeks now, media outlets have reported ever increasing numbers of new cases and deaths as the COVID-19 pandemic grips the world. The disease — caused by a new strain of coronavirus that appeared late last year — has now spread globally and has resulted in hundreds of thousands of cases and thousands of deaths.

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Interview with Statistics Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal: The key statistic that determines your chances of getting coronavirus

March 03, 2020

Due to myriad variables it’s not possible to predict your exact odds of contracting the novel coronavirus, but according to one renowned mathematician, there’s one statistic we should be closely tracking to gauge the probability of becoming infected.

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Statistics professor Jeff Rosenthal explains: how is mathematics like making music?

December 13, 2019

Both math and music work within logical structures, but leave lots of room for creativity, according to this statistics professor.

Dorothy Shoichet Award winner Silvana Pesenti’s research builds bridges, might help prevent the next financial crisis

November 26, 2019

Insurance often gets a bad rap. For most of us, dealing with insurance companies is a necessary evil defined by unpleasant tasks such as filling out paperwork, defending claims or spending money on ever increasing premiums.

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CANSSI Ontario: new provincial hub for statistics and data science connects researchers across disciplines

November 26, 2019

The Department of Statistical Sciences is excited to announce the launch of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) Ontario at U of T, a new Extra Departmental Unit in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto.

Announcement: changes to our graduate statistics programs

November 06, 2019

We are very excited to announce some positive changes to our PhD and MSc statistics programs at the U of T Department of Statistical Sciences.

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In the age of (really) big data, astrostatistician Gwen Eadie is exploring the cosmos with telescopes and statistics

November 01, 2019

When your field of study is the known universe and everything in it, you generate a lot of data.

This has never been more true for astronomers as the current generation of telescopes observe not just a single object or tiny patch of sky, but the entire sky for an entire night, night after night after night.

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Statistical sciences welcomes machine learning researcher Chris Maddison

October 17, 2019

The University of Toronto and the affiliated Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence have announced the recruitment of two rising stars in machine learning research as part of a continued drive to assemble the best AI talent in the world.

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Q&A with Ethan Wong, President of the Actuarial Science Club

September 18, 2019

Ethan Wong is a fourth-year student at the University of Toronto in Ontario, where he is majoring in Actuarial Science. Ethan is president of the Actuarial Science Club on campus, and he interned this past summer at Manulife. We spoke with Ethan in September 2019.

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Three statistical sciences professors awarded Connaught New Researcher Awards

September 09, 2019

Monica Alexander, Murat A.

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