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STATISTICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA
AGENDA for the Meeting of the Board of Directors
17 October 2009
9:00 – 10:00 (breakfast), 10:00 – 15:30 (meeting), 15:30 – 16:30 (presentation by R. Kan)
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University of Toronto 89 Chestnut, Armoury Suite, 2
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Approval of Agenda
Approval of Minutes (attached)
Business Arising
Reports of the Officers of the Society
4.1. President (report attached)
4.2. Past President (report attached)
4.3. President Elect (no report)
4.4. Executive Secretary (no report)
4.5. Treasurer (report attached – 4 motions)
4.6. Publications Officer (report attached)
4.7. Executive Director (report attached)
4.8. Meetings Coordinator
4.8.1. General (report attached)
4.8.2. SSC 2010 Program Chair (report attached)
4.8.3. SSC 2010 Local Arrangements (report attached)
4.8.4. SSC 2010 Budget (report attached)
4.9. Electronic Services Manager
Reports of Standing Committees
5.1. Bilingualism Committee (no report)
5.2. Election Committee (no report – 1 motion)
5.3. Publications Committee (no separate report – covers in 4.6)
5.3.1. Editor of the Canadian Journal of Statistics (report attached)
5.3.2. Managing Editor of the Canadian Journal of Statistics (no report)
5.3.3. Editor/Managing Editor of Liaison (report attached)
5.4. Program Committee (no separate report – covers in 4.7)
5.5. Finance Committee (no separate report – covers in 4.5)
Reports of Continuing Committees
6.1. Accreditation Committee (report attached – 1 motion)
6.2. Accreditation Appeal Committee (no report)
6.3. Awards Committee (no report)
6.3.1. CJS Best Paper (no report)
6.3.2. Lise Manchester (no report)
6.3.3. Case Studies in Data Analysis (no report)
6.3.4. Student Presentation (report attached)
6.3.5. Pierre Robillard (no report)
6.3.6. Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work (no report)
6.3.7. CRM-SSC Prize Committee (no report)
6.4. Committee on Membership (no report, 2010 form attached – 1 motion)
6.5. Public Relations Committee (no separate report – covers in 4.6)
6.6. Research Committee (no report – 1 motion)
6.7. Statistical Education Committee (report attached)
6.8. Committee on Women in Statistics (report attached)
Reports of Ad Hoc Committees
7.1. New Investigators (report attached)
7.2. NSERC Statistical Sciences Liaison (no separate report – covers in 4.1)
7.3. AusCan Scholar Committee (no separate report – covers in 4.1)
7.4. Student Travel Awards (no report)
Reports of the Sections
8.1. Biostatistics (report attached)
8.2. Business & Industrial Statistics (no report)
8.3. Probability (report, regulations, AGM 2008 minutes attached – 1 motion)
8.4. Survey Methods (no report)
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9. Reports of the Regional Associations
9.1. Statistical Society of Ottawa (no report)
9.2. Southern Ontario Regional Association (no report)
9.3. Statistical Society of Montreal (no report)
10. Other Business
11. Next Meeting
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2009 May- June SSC Board Meeting Minutes
STATISTICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA
Meeting of the Board of Directors
Vancouver, BC
Sunday and Wednesday May 31 and June 3, 2009 / Dimanche et mercredi 31 mai et 3 juin 2009
MINUTES / PROCÈS VERBAL
31 May 2008 / 31 mai 2009
Present: R. Viveros-Aguilera (Chair), B. Abraham, P. Cabilio, E. Chen, C. Genest, W. Lou,
F. Bellavance, J. Brewster, H. Chipman, G. Darlington, K. Keen, M. Lesperance, L. Lix, J.
O’Hara Hines, G. Sneddon, T. Ramsay,
Regrets: H. Bérard, A.-C. Favre, D. Stephens, C. Wu
Invited Attending: N. Arnason, M. Bennett, D. Binder, Y. Gel, P. Gustafson, J. Koval, D.
Murdoch, J. Trépanier, L. Weldon,
Invited Regrets: C. Bocci, M. Boudreau, C. Dean, J. Horrocks, J. Lawless, N. Reid
Meeting began at 12:00 / La réunion a commencé à 12h.
1. Approval of Agenda/ Approbation de l’ordre du jour
Genest / Lou. CARRIED / ADOPTÉ.
2. Approval of Minutes / Approbation du procès verbal
MOTION: that the minutes of the Board meeting held 18 October 2008 be approved / que le
procès verbal de la séance du Conseil tenue le 18 octobre 2008 soit approuvé. Genest /
Chipman. CARRIED / ADOPTÉ.
Record of Electronic Vote
Results of Electronic Vote of the Board held in March 2009, at which all Board members voted.
MOTION: that Honorary Membership be awarded to Isobel Loutit / que le titre de Membre
honoraire soit décerné à Isobel Loutit. Favre / Chipman. CARRIED unanimously / ADOPTÉ à
l'unanimité.
MOTION: that Honorary Membership be awarded to George P.H. Styan / que le titre de
Membre honoraire soit décerné à George P.H. Styan. Lesperance / Bellavance. CARRIED
unanimously / ADOPTÉ à l'unanimité.
10. Other Business
10.1 NSERC Presentation.
The Board was given a presentation by Serge Villemure, Director, Chemistry, Engineering and
Mathematical Sciences, regarding the implementation of the GSC restructuring, as well as the
results of the 2009 competition. In addition Judie Foster of NSERC attended this presentation.
At the conclusion of the presentation, following a question and answer session, the meeting
resumed at 13:30.
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5. Reports of Standing Committees
5.3.1. Editor of the CJS / Rédacteur en chef de la RCS. (Attachment 5.3.1) P. Gustafson reported /
a présenté son rapport.
At this point, M. Salibián-Barrera, Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee, joined the
meeting to report the up to date count of 598 web registrations, with expectations that more will
be registering on site.
On behalf of the SSC, R. Viveros-Aguilera thanked M. Salibián -Barrera, N. Heckman and
all the other volunteers who organized this meeting. A round of applause from the Board
echoed these sentiments.
6. Reports of Continuing Committees
6.1 Accreditation Committee / Comité d’accréditation. (Attachment 6.1) N. Arnason reported / a
présenté son rapport.
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In his report, N. Arnason expressed his disappointment at the limited success in attracting
academics to the accreditation program and in the number of submissions of courses for
accreditation. He touched on the issue of accredited members who had dropped out, noting
that one aspect that needs correcting is the lack of provisions for family leave in the
accreditation program.
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Services for accredited members need to be developed, and a publically accessible searchable
database of accredited members and their expertise needs to be developed professionally.
MOTION: that the designations A.Stat. 32 to 37 and P.Stat. 109 to 115 be awarded to the
individuals recommended in the report / que le titre de A.Stat. 32 à 37 et P.Stat. 109 à 115 soit
accordé aux personnes recommandées dans le rapport. Chipman / Ramsay. CARRIED /
ADOPTÉ.
R. Viveros-Aguilera hoped that progress can be achieved in implementing the directives from the
Board at its meeting of May 2006, with respect to the detailed points raised by W. Oldford and J.
MacKay regarding the Accreditation documents. The motion passed by the Board at that meeting
reads:
“Motion: that the Accreditation Committee incorporate all minor changes and corrections, report
to the Board on all major suggestions, and bring forward an operational document on
accreditation.”
D. Binder summarized some of the issues raised by W. Oldford and J. MacKay at that Board
meeting.
4. Reports of the Officers of the Society
4.1. President / Président. (Attachment 4.1) R. Viveros-Aguilera reported / a présenté son
rapport.
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R. Viveros-Aguilera noted the number of ad-hoc committees that had been active this year,
and the separation of the Lise Manchester Award Committee from the CJS Best Paper Award
Committee.
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With regards to educational issues, he noted the support that was given to several activities
within the sphere of secondary school and undergraduate statistics education.
He made reference to two new publication initiatives, Statistical Surveys and Springer’s
Online Encyclopaedia of Probability and Statistics (EPS). In the case of the EPS he noted
that the Publications Committee had recommended that the SSC participate in this
endeavour, and the Executive Committee had approved a suitably revised version of the
contract with Springer.
At this point W. Lou reported that at the most recent Publications Committee meeting held
just prior to the Board meeting, a member of the committee had recommended that more
feedback would be useful before the SSC commit itself to this enterprise.
L. Weldon added that at the meeting, G. Styan had been asked how the EPS would compare
to Wikipedia, G. Styan replied that, in his opinion, the EPS would be narrower in focus, but
greater in quality control. As is the case for Wikipedia, there would be no cost to the user.
However there is a requirement that the SSC appoint a member to the Editorial Board.
P.Cabilio will send out the detailed Springer Proposal and Contract to the Board, so that the
discussion may continue at our Wednesday continuation of the Board meeting.
4.2, 5.2, 6.2. (Attachment 5.2) C. Genest reported / a présenté ses rapports.
4.2 Past President / Président sortant.
5.2 Election Committee / Comité des élections.
General elections / élections générales:
 Ballots received / Bulletins reçus : 379
 Participation: 34.3%
6.2 Accreditation Appeals/ Dossiers d’accréditation en appel.
The committee reinstated accreditation of an appellant on maternity leave.
4.3. President Elect / Président élu. (Attachment 4.4) B. Abraham reported / a présenté son
rapport.
4.4. Secretary / Secrétaire. (Attachment 4.4) P.Cabilio reported / a présenté son rapport.
Committee on Women in Statistics
MOTION: that the composition of the Committee on Women in Statistics be five individuals in
good standing, one of whom shall be Chair, one a representative from the Canadian Section of
the Caucus for Women in Statistics and one a representative from the ISI Committee on
Women in Statistics. Cabilio / Lou. CARRIED / ADOPTÉ.
4.5. Treasurer / Trésorier (Attachment 4.5) E. Chen reported / a présenté son rapport.
E. Chen began by thanking C. Genest’s successful initiatives in raising funds for the SSC 2008
meeting. He reported on and explained the arrangements with the SSdF with regards to splitting
the meeting revenue, in which grants were not to be included as income. This provision allowed
each society to raise funds for their own use from their national agencies and institutes. With this
proviso, the meeting recorded a surplus of $12,700, which was to be split evenly with the SFdS.
However, in order to ensure that the SFdS not incur a deficit, the Executive agreed to transfer
$8480 from this surplus as the SFdS portion of the profits.
The Board joined E. Chen in a round of applause in recognition of C. Genest.
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E. Chen continued with his report. He explained some of the complications in ascribing income to
a particular year. For example, a membership payment may be for one year or for two years, and
may be made before or after the beginning of the calendar year it comes into effect.
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He noted the increasing reserves in cash and investments, and pointed out the need to
maintain at least one year’s projected expenditures in reserve. In addition there are various
long term initiatives that require funding, such as the installation of our own Office.
D. Murdoch stated that it is prudent to maintain a reserve.
D. Binder added that it is due to E. Chen’s prudent financial management that we find
ourselves in this healthy financial position.
R. Viveros-Aguilera noted that this is the last month of E. Chen’s term as treasurer, and
asked the Board to express their recognition of his service, to which the Board responded
with a round of applause.
R. Viveros-Aguilera introduced John Koval as the incoming SSC Treasurer, and noted that a
recommendation will be made to the upcoming AGM to appoint a new accounting firm.
4.6. Publications Officer / Directrice des publications. (Attachment 4.6) W. Lou reported / a
W. Lou highlighted the amendment to the agreement with JSTOR, and the question of Springer’s
Online Encyclopaedia of Probability and Statistics.
4.7. Executive Director / Directeur exécutif. (Attachment 4.7) D. Binder reported / a présenté son
rapport.
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D. Binder highlighted that the Office was forced to vacate its U. of Ottawa facilities, and the
subsequent two moves have caused some disruption.
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W. Lou asked about the timeline for instituting online payments for membership, and
wondered whether this could not be implemented through an agreement with a bank.
CMS Representative / Représentant de la SCM. M. Bennett reported.
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M. Bennett brought greeting from the CMS.
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He discussed some of the issues regarding the changes in the NSERC grant selection process
from the perspective of the mathematical community, outlined some of the outcomes of this
year’s competition in Mathematics, and expressed his concern with the impact that the GSC
restructuring will have on researchers.
7. Reports of Ad-Hoc Committees
7.1 Committee on New Investigators / Comité des nouveaux chercheurs. (Attachment 7.1) Y. Gel
reported / a présenté le rapport.
6. Reports of Continuing Committees (continued)
6.3 Awards Committee / Comité des Prix. (Attachment 6.3.1) C. Dean. Received / Reçu.
6.3.1. CJS Award / Prix de la RCS. (Attachment 6.3.1) M. Lesperance reported / a présenté
le rapport.
The meeting was adjourned at 16:15 to continue 3 June 2009 at 15:30
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3 June 2009 / 3 juin 2009
Present: R. Viveros-Aguilera (Chair), B. Abraham, P. Cabilio, E. Chen, C. Genest, W. Lou,
F. Bellavance, J. Brewster, H. Chipman, G. Darlington, K. Keen, M. Lesperance, L. Lix, J.
O’Hara Hines, G. Sneddon, T. Ramsay,
Invited Attending: D. Binder, A. Gibbs, J. Koval, A. Labbe, D. MacLeish, D. Murdoch, M.
Salibián-Barrera, L. Weldon,
For the information of the Board, R. Viveros-Aguilera distributed a booklet prepared by C. Dean
featuring all the prize winners for this year.
5. Reports of Standing Committees (continued)
5.3.3. Editor of the Liaison / Rédacteur en chef de Liaison. (Attachment 5.3.3) L. Weldon
reported / a présenté son rapport.
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L. Weldon expressed the need for more professional help in putting Liaison together.
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M. Salibián-Barrera enquired as to how many issues are printed and mailed, versus the
number that are sent out electronically, to which L. Weldon replied that approximately 430
are mailed, while about 425 are e-mailed. He added that the costs are $5 each for printing,
while postage is $2 per issue for local, and $7 international.
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D. Binder suggested that all past issues should be available from the web site, which will
require scanning of all issues prior to July 2000. He added that he presently has all issues of
Liaison.
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C. Genest added that he also has such issues, plus all the newsletters which preceded Liaison.
5.3.4 Electronic Services Manager / Gérant des services électroniques. (Attachment 5.3.4) H.
Chipman reported / a présenté son rapport.
5.1 Bilingualism Committee / Comité du bilinguisme. (Attachment 5.1) Received / Reçu.
4. Reports of the Officers of the Society (continued)
4.8 Program Secretary / Secrétaire des congrès. (Attachment 4.8) D. Murdoch reported / a
SSC 2012
D. Murdoch reported on the recommendation from the Program Committee.
MOTION: that the 2012 SSC Annual Meeting be held at the University of Guelph in Guelph,
ON, on June 3-6, 2012 / que le Congrès annuel 2012 de la Société statistique du Canada ait
lieu à University of Guelph à Guelph ON du 3 au 6 juin. Lesperance / Chipman. CARRIED /
ADOPTÉ.
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As noted in his report, D. Murdoch reminded the Board that in addition to Guelph, there had
also been a bid from the University of Windsor. The Program Committee was very positive
for both applications, but felt that ease of travel gave Guelph a slight edge. The committee
also felt that Windsor would be a strong candidate for SSC 2014, should they choose to make
a bid at that time. D. Murdoch also felt that the Guelph people had shown more enthusiasm
in his interactions with them.
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B. Abraham asked whether this “difficulty in getting there” will become a permanent black
mark on Windsor, since the conditions will not change in the foreseeable future.
E. Chen stated that as a member of the Program Committee, he did not think that the travel
issue should be a concern. After all, people manage to get to Windsor and back without too
much trouble.
D. Murdoch noted that bids from both Guelph and Windsor had been rejected before. Either
site would have been acceptable to the committee.
B. Abraham pointed out that Guelph had hosted a meeting some 25 years ago, while Windsor
had never had the opportunity.
R. Viveros-Aguilera asked whether the expenses would be comparable for the two sites, to
which D. Murdoch answered that costs had not been an issue in the choice.
MOTION: that the Local Organizers of the 2012 SSC Annual Meeting be jointly Brian Allen
and Gary Umphrey / que Brian Allen et Gary Umphrey soient nommés Présidents conjointes
du comité local d’organisation du Congrès annuel 2012.
Chipman / Brewster.
A discussion ensued, which touched on whether there are any provisions for co-chairs of local
organizing committees and whether it would be appropriate to have a chair of such a committee
who is not an SSC member.
As a result, the mover and seconder accepted a friendly amendment, so that the motion
considered was:
MOTION: that the Local Organizer of the 2012 SSC Annual Meeting be Brian Allen / que
Brian Allen soit nommé Président du comité local d’organisation du Congrès annuel 2012.
Chipman / Brewster. CARRIED / ADOPTÉ.
SSC 2010
D. Murdoch informed the Board that the Program Committee recommends that the President
invite the ASSQ to be co-sponsors of the 2010 meeting. They will be asked to organize some
sessions, and will be offered space for their annual general meeting; however, they will not
participate financially in the meeting.
SSC 2009
M. Salibián-Barrera reported that the overwhelming majority of people registered electronically,
with only 17 registering on site.
R. Viveros-Aguilera called for a motion of thanks for a very well organized meeting.
MOTION: that the SSC express its thanks to Matías Salibián-Barrera, Nancy Heckman, and
Lang Wu for all their work in the local organization of SSC 2009 / que la SSC exprime sa
gratitude envers Matías Salibián-Barrera, Nancy Heckman, et Lang Wu pour leurs services
rendus dans l’organisation locale de SSC 2009. Lix / Ramsay. CARRIED unanimously /
ADOPTÉ à l’unanimité.
At this point the Chair returned to the issue of SSC involvement in Springer’s Online
Encyclopaedia of Probability and Statistics.
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R. Viveros-Aguilera informed the Board that he had discussed the matter with G. Styan, who
expressed no objection to this initiative. Since all Board members have now had a chance to look
over the relevant documents, R. Viveros-Aguilera called for a motion.
MOTION: that the SSC participate in the Springer Online Encyclopaedia of Probability and
Statistics. Ramsay / Abraham. CARRIED / ADOPTÉ.
7. Reports of Ad-Hoc Committees (continued)
7.2 SSC-NSERC Liaison Committee / Comité de liaison SSC-CRSNG. (Attachment 7.2) H.
Chipman reported / a présenté le rapport.
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In reporting, H. Chipman noted that the committee’s term ends on 1 July 2009, and touched
upon the comments in the report regarding the future of the committee.
A discussion took place regarding the role of this committee and the Research Committee,
and whether the roles could be combined. F. Bellavance, a member of the Board and Chair of
the Research Committee pointed out that several members of his committee had also served
on this ad-hoc committee.
R. Viveros-Aguilera pointed out that the incoming President will be discussing the roles of
these committees with their chairs.
D. MacLeish, (incoming President-Elect) added that lobbying for increased research support
should be an important priority, and a continuing committee would be appropriate for such a
role.
B. Abraham stated that a combination of the two committees into one may turn out to be the
best solution.
6. Reports of Continuing Committees (continued)
6.3.2 Case studies in data analysis / Études de cas en analyse de données. (Attachment 6.3.2) K.
Keen reported / a présenté le rapport.
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K. Keen made special note of the fact that the committee is not receiving any submissions
east of Toronto. It would be helpful if we promoted this prize.
6.9 Statistical Education Committee / Comité d’éducation statistique. (Attachment 6.9) A. Gibbs
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A. Gibbs emphasized the outreach activities in the K-12 sector. Many of these are
piggybacked on initiatives from the mathematical community, and the SSC has had trouble
getting “a permanent seat at the table,” so that we should be looking at options for going our
own way.
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She also identified the need for outreach to educators at the secondary school level.
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R. Viveros-Aguilera added that we need to decide how much as a society we can do, and
how to allocate our resources to meet our long term goals.
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T. Ramsey said that he would be happy to contribute to a Wiki with data sets for the use of
teachers.
6.3.5 Impact of Applied and Collaborative work / Impact Du Travail Appliqué et en
Collaboration (Attachment 6.5) J. Lawless. Received / Reçu.
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6.5. Aus-Can Scholar Committee/ Comité du boursier AusCan (Attachment 6.5) J. Lawless.
Received / Reçu.
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R. Viveros-Aguilera pointed out that the Australian Society (SSAI) finds itself in a financial
crisis, and is unable to provide its share of the financial support for the designated scholar.
The SSAI President’s suggestion was that they would try to raise the funds from Australian
sources, although that seems unlikely since they are presently trying to raise money to ensure
their viability as a society.
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In the discussion that followed it was reported by W. Lou, that the designated scholar, Jiguo
Cao, had indicated that he would prefer to postpone his trip by one year.
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If that is indeed the case, then the issue can be postponed for a year, but in any case it would
seem that the SSC can only commit to its financial obligation to partially support the scholar,
and not commit itself to taking up the obligations of the SSAI.
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It was noted by R. Viveros-Aguilera that the agreement with the SSAI will elapse in 2010 at
which time the program is scheduled for a review to decide its future.
6.10. Committee on Women in Statistics / Comité sur les Femmes en Statistique (Attachment
6.10) J. Horrocks. Received / Reçu.
9. Reports of the Regional Associations
9.1 Statistical Society of Ottawa / Société statistique d’Ottawa. (Attachment 9.1) E. Chen
9.2. SORA / ARSO (Attachment 9.2) W. Lou reported / a présenté le rapport.
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W. Lou informed the Board that Georges Monette is the new President of SORA.
8. Reports of the Sections
8.1. Biostatistics section / Groupe de biostatistique. (Attachment 8.1) S. Lele. Received / Reçu.
8.2. Business & Industrial Statistics section / GSIG. (Attachment 8.2) S. Cheng. Received / Reçu.
Referring to Item 7 of the report which forecasts a deficit for 2009, Smiley Cheng reported in
communications with P. Cabilio that in light of the fact that 38 have registered for the BISS
Workshop, the resulting increased revenue will probably lead to a surplus.
8.3. Probability section / Groupe de probabilité. (Attachment 8.3) B. Remillard. Received / Reçu.
8.4. Survey Methods / Groupe d’enquêtes. (Attachment 8.4) Received / Reçu.
With the completion of the agenda, the meeting turned to a short discussion on the use of our
resources.
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J. Koval, the incoming Treasurer, referred to information given out by E. Chen with respect
to the fact that we have been advised that the SSC is registered as a “charitable” rather than a
“not for profit” organization.
T. Ramsay gave the opinion that our reserves are too large, and we should be spending more
on worthwhile endeavours.
C. Genest surmised that charitable status would give us the right to issue receipts for
donations. He added that as a society we rely far too much on volunteer work, and we need
to spend more on professional help.
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11. Next Meeting / Prochaine assemblée. Ottawa ON, Saturday 17 October 2009 (10:00-17:00)
/ Ottawa, ON, samedi 17 octobre 2009 (10:00-17:00).
In closing the meeting, R. Viveros-Aguilera welcomed all new Board members, and expressed
thanks to all departing Board and Executive members.
R. Viveros-Aguilera took the occasion to highlight P. Cabilio’s many years of service to the
SSC in various roles, the latest as Executive Secretary, and asked the Board to express its
appreciation with a round of applause, which the Board delivered.
The meeting adjourned at 17:30 / La séance a été levée à 17h 30. E. Chen / G. Darlington.
Paul Cabilio, Executive Secretary
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President’s Report, SSC October 2009
1. Appointments:
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Executive Director: David Binder agreed to stay until 2010-12-31.
Committee appointments are finished and the new committees are on the web.
SSC signed a contract with Springer for a Statistics and Probability encyclopaedia.
Representative on the Editorial Board, Springer Encyclopaedia: David Bellhouse
CJS Editor:
2. JSM-09, August 1-6, Washington DC:
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Reception: More than 120 attended, was excellent
SSC Booth: Ran well with the help of 10 volunteers; thanks to Wendy Lou for all the
help. We picked up two SSC memberships.
COPSS: Bovas, Don and Roman participated in the meeting. Two new associations
(International Indian Statistical Association, and International Chinese Statistical
Association) are becoming COPSS members.
New ASA fellows from SSC: Syed Ejaz Ahmed (University of Windsor), Naomi S.
Altman (Pennsylvania State University), Keumhee Chough Carriere (University of
Alberta), Jiahua Chen (University of British Columbia), and Chris Wild (University
of Auckland)
COPSS F.N. David Award: Nancy Reid (University of Toronto)
Student Mixer Prize: SSC offered a prize of one free membership for a year.
3. ISI Durban session: August 16-22, 2009:
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Meeting of the representatives from many national statistical societies. Bovas
represented SSC. There was discussion of an international federation of societies.
Amanda Ens from Canada won second in her age group in the International
Statistical Literacy Competition. SSC was one of her sponsors.
4. Presidential Invited Address, SSC-2010: May 24, 2009: Nobel Laureate Robert
Engle, Stern School of Business, New York University.
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NSERC Liason Committee: Research committee will take over the function
AusCan scholarship: The Australian society has agreed to raise funds for AusCan
Scholar’s (Jiguo Cao) Australian trip in the Fall 2010.
Stat Education committee: Applied for NSERC SciencePromo Project
Attachment 4.1 October 09
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Report from the Past-President, SSC October 2009
The following lists the activities I have been involved with since last Board meeting in
May-June. Since I moved to the Past-President role, my level of activity was reduced. But
during June-July there were a few things leftover matters.
1. Some 23 letters were written and sent to departments, deans and media offices of
award winners’ universities. In addition to the letters, two copies of the awards
brochure were included.
2. Thank-you letters (24 in total) were sent to Committee Chairs who completed their
terms, program and local organizers of SSC2009 and their deans, Presidential
Address Speaker Chris Wild, and case study providers Roberta Parish and Rob
Balshaw.
3. An invitation from University of Guelph President to hold our 2012 Annual Meeting
at University of Guelph was received, a positive reply letter was sent back.
4. Based on a decision taken at this year’s Annual Meeting, an invitation letter was sent
to the ASSQ President to have our 2010 Annual Meeting jointly with their
Association. A positive reply was received.
5. I have made myself available for consultation by President Abraham whenever
necessary.
6. I attended the JSM in Washington in early August. Jointly with President Abraham
and President-Elect McLeish represented the SSC at the annual meeting of the
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS).
7. Also helped as member of the CJS Transition Committee and as an Associate editor
of Liaison where my proofing services have found use.
8. My main formal duty has been chairing this year’s Election Committee. The activities
of this Committee are reported separately.
Respectfully submitted,
Román Viveros-Aguilera (McMaster University)
Attachment 4.2 - October 17, 2009
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Page 1 of 1
Report of the Treasurer SSC October 2009
1)Financial Report on SSC2009. the Annual Meeting held in Vancouver BC May-June 2009:
(see pages 4 to 6)
This meeting, attended by 625 people, has a surplus of about $36,000.
This does not include the cost of certain events held at the time and place of the annual meeting,
such as the Workshops, the New Investigators Reception and Awards given at the meeting.
These items are reported under the item Financial Report of the SSC for 2009.
It should be noted that there is one revenue item (CRM/MITACS/PIMS/Fields sponsorship) to be
collected, and possibly a number of small adjustments to be made.
2)Financial Report of the SSC for 2009:
The final Financial Report for 2009 will not be given until the AGM in 2010. The current projected
figures in the Annual report are given as column 4 in the Revenues and Expenses tables of the
Proposed Budgets for 2010 and 2011 (see pages 7 and 8).
The projected surplus for 2009 is about $25,000 as opposed to a budgeted loss of $11,000.
The chief differences between budgeted and current projected are
2.1)Revenues:
More members than expected, particularly Institutional;
Annual meeting had higher income because of higher attendance and income from Sponsorship and
Exhibitors;
CJS – more funds predicted from Wiley but NONE received yet
Liaison/Web advertising down
2.2)Expenses:
Professional Fees (Auditor) $4300 higher than expected;
Board and Executive expenses up: includes travel to west coast for AGM;
Committees up, includes New Investigators ($2242,81 expenses, but $1914 income)
and Education ($1000);
Accreditation up, but income is $10,000;
Meeting expenses up with more attendees;
CJS expenses up; more expenses for transition year than expected;
SSC Office up – additional expenses (including storage) , 3.4% increase in September, web and
database work ($15000)
ISLC (International Statistical Literacy Competition ) - only cost to SSC was $1000 contribution;
Aus-Can costs not incurred this year, will be only $3000 next year
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3)Proposed Budgets for 2010 and 2011:
The proposed budget for the Society is given in columns 5 and 6 of the tables on page 7 and 8,
and the proposed budgets for the four sections are given on pages 9 to 12.
3.1)SSC Budget for 2010:
Compared to the 2009 budget, the following changes in 2010 are expected:
3.1.1)Revenues:
Membership income higher – more institutional members projected;
Meeting income down – calculations based on 500 attendees; less sponsorship available and fewer
exhibitors
CJS – 5% increase;
Subscriptions - $6000 less (but also $6000 less expenses) due to no longer offering subscriptions to
non-Canadian journals;
Liaison/Web advertising – small increase from actual 2009 but $8000 less than 2009 budget;
Donations less – no ISLC contributions expected this year
3.1.2)Expenses:
Subscriptions: down because of dropping subscriptions to non-Canadian journals;
Professional fees (auditor) higher that budgeted in 2009, but less than actual cost in 2009;
Accreditation up to reflect actual costs in 2009;
Annual meeting costs down to reflect smaller meeting (expected $2000 surplus for the meeting);
CJS costs down to reflect most work being handled by Wiley;
SSC Office – annual increase of 3% in September; change from GST (5%) to HST (13%) on July 1,
2010;
Liaison – 5% increase in cost;
Web Site– increased by $20,000 to cover expected costs of update to Web access, to allow for
online membership subscription and easier management of contents of our Web pages;
Awards up and Translation down to reflect actual costs in 2009
3.2)Budget for 2011:
very similar to that for 2010, except
3.2.1)Revenue:
CJS revenue up by5%, and Liaison/Web advertising up by $1000
3.2.2)Expenses:
SSC office – 3% increase per year by CSM, plus remaining 6 months of increase due to changing
from GST to HST
Liaison costs up by 5%
Web Site costs back to usual
3.3)Budgets of the Sections
These predict small surpluses or losses. The losses could be handled by the accumulated surplus of
any section; in general the sections run a small surplus, due to income from workshops.
The Probability Section is having their first workshop this year, joint with BISS.
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4)Finance Committee:
The finance committee met on the morning of October 17, 2009.
A report will be forthcoming.
The committee will be striking a sub-committee with the following tasks:
4.1)determine the amount of the cumulative surplus of the SSC required as an operating reserve
and recommend how this should be invested
4.2)determine the amount of the cumulative surplus NOT required as an operating reserve, and
recommend how this should be invested.
5)Motions arising from this report
5.1)That the SSC no longer handle subscriptions for journals from outside of Canada, that is, the SSC
handle subscriptions only for the Canadian Journal of Statistics and Survey Methodology;
5.2)That the cost of the subscription for the Canadian Journal of Statistics be raised from $20 annually
to $25 annually.
5.3)That the board approve the Budget of the SSC for 2010;
5.4)That the board approve the Budget of the four sections for 2010.
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SSC 2009 – Final financial report
October 2009
Local organizing committee
Matias Salibian-Barrera
The University of British Columbia
Expenses
Reception
Facilities
Overtime / Administration
Food
Museum of Anthropology (rental)
Board / Executive
Food
Banquet
Facilities
Custodial / security
Food
Coffee breaks
Management (Meeting / Exhibitors)
Staffing
Organization
Event staffing (approx 330 hours)
Other staffing (UBC Stats and PIMS)
Web services
Website
Registration (CMS)
Abstract preparation (CRM)
Registration
Space rental
UBC Conferences staff
CMS
Paypal fee
Miscellaneous
Insurance
Travel awards
Photocopies / signage
Gifts to Media Services people
Volunteer T-shirts
Grad Student Mixer
Facilities / A/V / Labour
Food
$12,898.99
$500.00
$236.80
$12,162.19
$3,360.00
$1,169.07
$1,169.07
$50,809.39
$1,129.81
$1,271.64
$48,407.94
$11,145.75
$21,525.00
$37,203.15
$30,000.00
$4,950.00
$2,253.15
$5,672.13
$3,000.00
$1,672.13
$1,000.00
$20,522.12
$367.50
$2,100.00
$11,484.38
$6,570.24
$4,730.61
$1,085.00
$1,200.00
$1,814.09
$20.00
$611.52
$3,975.14
$1,291.08
$2,684.06
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Translations
Abstracts
Web (local information)
Presentation slides
Sessions
Facilities
Equipment for speakers
Exhibitors
Speaker support
A/V
Gifts / Programs
$9,098.40
$6,420.00
$592.60
$2,085.80
$33,421.26
$7,108.50
$5,242.70
$1,152.06
$16,138.00
$3,780.00
$14,634.85
Total Expenses
$230,165.86
Revenues
Sponsorship
UBC Stats (in kind)
Corporate
Institutional
Exhibitors
Registration + banquet tickets
Registration
Banquet tickets
$63,250.00
$34,950.00
$7,800.00
$20,500.00
$7,900.00
$195,305.00
$193,350.00
$1,955.00
Total revenues
$266,455.00
Total expenses:
Total revenues:
Profit:
$230,165.86
$266,455.00
$36,289.14
Financial result
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Conference Attendance totals
Regular
Student
Retired
Total
Member & Invited speakers
293
58
19
370
Non-member
99
154
3
256
Total
392
212
22
626
Retired
Total
Workshops attendance
Biostatistics
Regular
Student
11
5
16
Non-member
8
20
28
Total
19
25
44
BISS
Regular
Student
Retired
Total
10
9
19
Non-member
5
18
23
Total
15
27
42
Survey Methods
Regular
Student
Retired
Total
4
2
6
Non-member
5
6
11
Total
9
8
17
Workshop Finances
The only cost incurred by the Sections was the coffee break. The total cost of the catering service was
$1168.76, which results in a per person cost of $11.35.
Workshop
Attendance
Cost
Revenue
Profit
Biostatistics
44
$499.28
$5,030.00
$4,530.72
BISS
42
$476.58
$4,285.00
$3,808.42
Survey Methods
17
$192.90
$2,185.00
$1,992.10
6)
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2010 and 2011 SSC BUDGETS: REVENUES
2008
Budge t
Actual
Re ve nue
MEMBERSHIP
Re gular
2009
Budge t Proje cte d
2010
Budge t
2011
Budge t
610
67100
250
5800
22
7150
80050
700
74830
319
7130
28
9100
91060
650
71500
250
5800
22
7150
84450
677
74470
279
8370
32
10400
93240
650
71500
250
7500
28
9100
88100
650
71500
250
7500
28
9100
88100
Annual Me e ting
328067
352201
196300
266455
170000
160000
CJS
129700
142433
30000
47205
49700
52000
Accre ditation
11200
10285
10200
10000
10200
10200
Socie tie s/Subscription
s
15000
14850
15000
15000
9000
9000
Inve stme nt Inte re st
6000
10512
7000
7000
7000
7000
Liaison/We b Ad.
16000
14642
17000
8000
9000
10000
GST Re bate s
4000
7872
3000
5000
5000
5000
JSM Re ve nue (USD)
2000
1565
2000
1500
1500
1500
Donations
500
120
500
2727
500
500
Othe r
3000
5676
3000
3000
3000
3000
Fore ign Exchange
0
0
0
-228
0
0
595517
643344
368450
458899
353000
346300
Associate
Institutional
Total
Total
Page 7 of 12
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2010 and 2011 SSC BUDGETS: EXPENSES
Expenses
ADMINISTRATIVE
Bank Charge s
Insurance
Socie tie s/Subscriptions
Organization Due s
Profe ssional Fe e s
BOARD/COMMITTEES
Board & Exe c Expe nse s
Committe es
Pre side nt
Accre ditation
OTHER EXPENSES
Annual Mee ting
Stude nt Trave l
CJS Re gular Ope ration
SSC Office
Liaison
Ele ctions
We b Site
Awards
JSM
Me mbership Promotion
Science Fair
Translation
Misce llane ous
Office Ope rations
ADDITIONAL EXPENSES
ISLC
Aus-Can Program
TOTAL:
Surplus (Deficit)
2008
2008
2009
2009
2010
2011
budge t
actual
budge t
proje cte d
budge t
budge t
2008
Budge t
Actual
2009
Budge t
Proje cted
2010
Budge t
2011
Budge t
2500
2500
15000
1000
6000
2687.75
2386.80
14850.00
982.00
10290.00
2500
2500
15000
1000
6000
2500.00
2500.00
13247.00
897.37
11149.69
2500
2500
10000
1000
9000
2500
2500
10000
1000
9000
8500
2000
1000
8300
8805.60
753.30
1044.14
540.00
12500
2000
1000
3000
15057.00
3242.81
1000.00
4011.14
15000
2000
1000
4000
15000
2000
1000
4000
328067
2000
100905
301136.00
1587.57
106801.00
200594
3000
8000
236165.86
1800.00
13000.00
168000
3000
6000
160000
3000
6000
50350
35000
4000
3000
4000
2500
2000
2000
3500
4000
4000
50434.97
33535.40
3653.74
6330.31
5194.11
2436.40
333.90
2000.00
380.69
3518.73
4851.08
51555
34000
2000
3000
4000
2500
2000
2000
3500
4000
4000
70000.00
33429.00
2000.00
2660.00
4467.28
1376.00
2000.00
2000.00
502.27
3000.00
4000.00
74000
35700
2000
23000
5000
2500
2000
2000
2000
4000
4000
78000
37500
2000
3000
5000
2500
2000
2000
2000
4000
4000
10000
4231.69
0
10000
3600.00
0.00
3000
3000
602122
568765.17
379649
433605.42
383200
361000
Revenues Expenses
595,517
602,122
643,344
568,765
368,450
379,649
458,899
433,605
353,000
383,200
346,300
361,000
=
=
=
=
=
=
-6,605
74,579
-11,199
25,294
-30,200
-14,700
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Statistical Society of Canada
Biostatistics Section
Proposed budgets for 2010 and 2011
REVENUES
2008
Approve d
Membership
(number)
Workshop
Other Income - interest
TOTAL
10/08/09
2008
Actual
2009
Approved
900 1055.00
180
342
6650 9955.00
500
779.00
8050 11789.00
2009
Curre nt
900 1055.00
180
342
6650 9955.00
500
779.00
8050 11789.00
2010
2010
2011
Approved Propos ed Propos e d
900
342
7000
500
8400
950
950
7500
300
8750
8000
300
9250
0.00
250.00
3641.42
3000.00
500.00
47.50
0.00
500.00
7938.92
2000
250
4700
2000
500
50
500
500
10500
3000
250
4700
3000
500
50
500
500
12500
3250
260
4700
3250
500
25
500
500
12985
-2425 3850.08
35165 41439.65
-2100
39340
-3750
37690
-3735
33955
EXPENSES
SSC Sessions
Webmaster
Workshop
Student Travel Grants
Science Fair Contribution
Bank charges
Pres Travel to Board Meeting
Young Biostatisticians Talk
TOTAL
2000
250
4700
2000
0
25
500
0.00
250.00
3641.42
3000.00
500.00
25.00
22.50
9475
7438.92
SURPLUS
Reserve Funds
-1425
4350.08
37589.57
2000
250
4700
2000
500
25
500
500
10475
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Survey Methods Section of SSC
Budget for 2010 -11
2009
$14,898.00
Balance on January 1
Revenue
Fee
Membership
Workshop
► regular
► student
Workshop total
No.
Fee No.
Total
$2
100
$200.00
$2
100
$200.00
$175
$60
7
8
15
$1,225.00
$480.00
$1,705.00
$175
$60
25
5
30
$4,375.00
$300.00
$4,675.00
Total Revenue
Expenses
Workshop
Workshop Speakers
Workshop room, audiovisual & materials
Workshop catering (2 coffee breaks only)
Workshop total
Invited speakers (Special Invited and
Invited sessions organized by SMS)
SMS Award for best student paper
Travel Grant for Students
Bank fees
Total Expenses
Excess (deficiency) of revenue over expenses
Balance on December 31
2010
$14,301.00
2011
$12,901.00
Fee No.
$2 100
$175
$60
15
5
20
Total
$200.00
$2,625.00
$300.00
$2,925.00
$1,905.00
$4,875.00
$3,125.00
$0.00
$600.00
$375.00
$975.00
$2,000.00
$300.00
$450.00
$2,750.00
$500.00
$300.00
$300.00
$1,100.00
$15
30
$15
20
$0.00
$2,000.00
$1,000.00
$500.00
$1,000.00
$500.00
$1,000.00
$500.00
$1,000.00
$27.00
$25.00
$25.00
$2,502.00
$6,275.00
$3,625.00
-$597.00
-$1,400.00
-$500.00
$14,301.00
$12,901.00
$12,401.00
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Budget - Business and Industrial Statistics Section
Budget 2010-11
(Aug. 2009 forecast)
2009
2010
2011
$375.00
$2,000.00
20 @ $100
$375.00
$1,175.00
10@ $175
10@$60
$375.00
$1,500.00
10 @ $175
10@$60
(Don McLeish/Vancouver)
(Queb ec) Joint with PS
(Wolfeville)
$2,375.00
$1,550.00
$1,875.00
Workshop
Coffee/luncheon
AV
Printing/CD-ROM
Speaker
Room
Student travel
Other
TDBank Transaction fees
$1,750.00
$150
$300
$100
$500
$700
$1,000.00
$59.40
$425.00
$150
$100
$100
$500
$0
$1,000.00
$59.40
$850.00
$150
$100
$100
$500
$0
$1,000.00
$59.40
Total, expenditure
$2,809.40
$1,484.40
$1,909.40
Surplus, year
CUMULATIVE SURPLUS*
-$434.40
$8,447.36
$65.60
$8,512.96
-$34.40
$8,478.56
REVENUE
Membership
Workshop
Total, revenue
EXPENDITURE
*(based on balance of $6196.76 on Dec 31 2008 plus $2685.00 income for year 2008)
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Budget, Probability Section
2010-11
REVENUE
Membership
Workshop
(as of March 2009)
(Sept. 2010 forecast)
(Sept. 2011 forecast)
2009
2010
2011
1175
$320.00
64x$5
$0.00
Regular
Student
Total, revenue
$300.00
60x$5
$300.00
60x$5
1175
$1,175.00
$2,350.00
Joint with BISS
$1,750.00
$1,750.00
10x$175
10x$175
$600.00
$600.00
10x$60
10x$60
$320.00
$1,475.00
$2,650.00
$0.00
$212.50
$75.00
$50.00
$50.00
$250.00
$0.00
$1,500.00
Student travel
$0.00
$500.00
$500.00
Total, expenditure
$0.00
$712.50
$2,000.00
$320.00
$830.00
$762.50
$1,592.50
$650.00
$2,242.50
EXPENDITURE
Workshop
Coffee/luncheon
AV
Printing
Speakers
Room
Surplus, year
CUMULATIVE SURPLUS*
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Report of the Publications Officer, SSC October 2009
Since the submission of the last report in May 2009, the following activities were undertaken:
• Springer and the Encyclopedia of Probability and Statistics
The Publications Committee recommended participating in the Springer online encyclopedia
“Probability and Statistics Online”, which is also supported by many other statistical
societies (including Bernoulli, IBS, and ISI). Following the signing of the contract
agreement, an SSC representative to the Editorial Board was sought, and Prof. David
Bellhouse recently accepted the position.
• Editor for the Canadian Journal of Statistics (CJS)
Working closely with Prof. Bovas Abraham, the SSC President, the search for a successor to
Paul Gustafson, whose term as CJS Editor will expire at the end of December, 2009, is
continuing.
•
Statistics Surveys (SS)
A direct link to the journal has been added to the SSC website under “Publications”. SS is an
open-access journal, and is sponsored by ASA, Bernoulli, IMS and SSC. Prof. Richard
Lockhart is the current Executive Editor representing SSC.
•
JSM 2009
An exhibition booth displaying SSC information, including an SSC poster and accreditation
brochures, was set up during the JSM, as in previous years. Because of ASA’s
announcement of a program for voluntary individual accreditation of statisticians, there was
an increased number of booth visitors inquiring about our accreditation process, and there
were plenty of interactions that promoted the SSC and its programs.
•
Other Matters
Ongoing efforts include further refinement of the SSC poster and preparation of new SSC
brochures.
Wendy Lou
Publications Officer
October 1, 2009
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Report of the Executive Director, October 2009
CMS has now hired a new Executive Director, Johan Rudnick. Johan is quite personable
and it looks like he will be easy to work with. Graham Wright, the outgoing Executive
Director, will continue to be available until December.
I continue to receive monthly updates of the database from the Office. Using this I was
able to handle several requests from members and the Executive regarding the status of
our members. I was also able to point out a very small number of errors in the
information recorded on the database, and help with giving information to the Office
resulting from Executive and Board decisions. I dealt with some ad hoc correspondence
that was sent to the office. I meet with office staff biweekly. This has proven to be quite
useful as issues are resolved quickly.
The old 2005 Brochures needed to be converted from Quark Express to InDesign to allow
changes by the Office. Accreditation colours changed from maroon to SSC-red. Some
minor changes in wording were made to Accreditation brochure. As well the
Accreditation seals and certificates are being changed to new colour.
Based on information from Bovas, the SSC aliases for committees have been updated.
I was on Bovas' committee on advising the executive with respect to Office contract
renewal.
David Binder
September 29, 2009
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Report of Meetings Coordinator, SSC October
2009
1. SSC 2009 in Vancouver
The meeting in Vancouver was a great success; there is a report elsewhere from the chair of the Local Arrangements Committee. It has
been Board policy (since about 2004, but the practice predates that)
to give a grant of $6000 for scholarships in statistics to the host institution when the meeting makes at least that much profit; I will so move
at the Board meeting.
2. SSC 2010 meeting in Québec
Local Arrangements Chair Thierry Duchesne has submitted a written
report, as has Program Chair Christian Léger.
3. SSC 2011 meeting in Wolfville
Shelley Bull has been appointed as Program Chair.
4. SSC 2012 meeting in Guelph
We requested and received a formal invitation from the President and
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guelph, and the SSC President
accepted the invitation.
Local chair Brian Allen reports he has received help from U. of Guelph
Conference Services, to block out about 235 rooms in nearby hotels.
(He was hoping for information from past organizers to estimate how
many will be taken up.) He has also got room reservations for lecture
halls on campus, and a dining room where we could have lunch.
5. SSC 2013 meeting in Western Canada
We are looking for bids for this meeting. The Program Committee will
consider them next winter and spring and make a recommendation in
our May meeting in Québec.
Respectfully submitted by Duncan Murdoch, Meetings Coordinator
Attachment 4.8.1 October 2009
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Report of the Program Chair SSC 2010, SSC October 2009
The invited program is still a work in progress and its structure looks as follows at this
time:
Special Invited Lectures
Other Societies & Org
Sections
Introductory Overview
Lectures
Actuarial Science
Science
New Investigators
Accredited Members
Creating a National Statistical
Sciences Institute
Interdisciplinary Research
Late Breaking
Other Invited Sessions
Total
6
4
16
3
3 (+1 BISS)
1
1
1
1
1
0
11
48
Workshops:
There will be three workshops. The joint BISS and Probability workshop will be led by
Christian Genest (Laval) and Johanna Nešlehová (McGill) on the topic of “Copulas
(Introduction to the Theory, Implementation in R, with Applications in Finance and
Insurance)”. The Biostatistics workshop will be led by Miguel A. Hernán (Harvard
School of Public Health) and will be devoted to “Draw your Assumptions Before your
Conclusions: Graphs for Causal Inference”. The Survey Methods’ workshop should be
decided soon.
Special Invited Lectures:
They are the Presidential Invited Address (Robert F. Engle, Nobel Prize; thanks to
Bovas!), the Gold Medal (Nancy Reid), the SSC Impact Award (Rick Routledge), the
CRM-SSC Prize, Pierre-Robillard Award, and CJS Award (still to be determined).
Special Features:
The SSC 2010 Program will introduce some new features. First of all, we will have three
Introductory Overview Lectures (IOL). The concept is freely borrowed from the Joint
Statistical Meetings. These lectures should provide a 90-minute introduction to important
and timely statistical topics. Presented by specialists, they are planned to be accessible to
a wide range of researchers and statisticians.
The exact topic and speakers for these three IOL is yet to be determined as I am waiting
to see how much money I will have for these sessions. But I would hope to attract Jim
Ramsay (McGill) on Functional Data Analysis, David Hand (Imperial College) on
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Statistical Learning and Data Mining and Lance Waller (Emory University) on Spatial
Statistics.
Actuarial Science:
Our Annual Meeting often features an occasional session on peripheral topics such as
actuarial science. A single session is unlikely to draw a critical mass of participants from
such a community beyond the invited speakers. This year, I have decided to have a
concentration of invited sessions in actuarial science in order to attract a sizable number
of them to the meeting. BISS is organizing a session in actuarial science and three other
sessions are being organized. José Garrido of Concordia University is helping me
coordinate these four sessions.
ASSQ:
In June, Roman Viveros-Aguilera contacted Martin Rioux, President of the Association
des statisticiennes et statisticiens du Québec in order to invite them to join us in SSC
2010. They have been invited to organize three invited sessions. These three sessions
will most likely be in French.
Statistics and Science:
Once again, Agnes Herzberg will be organizing a session on Science and Statistics. A
fair budget will have to be set aside for this session.
New Investigators and Accredited Members:
I contacted the Chairs of these two committees to see if some activities could be
organized for those communities. The New Investigators Committee is organizing a
roundtable on problems and issues for junior researchers (both in academia and in
industry). The Accreditation Committee is planning to organize a session of interest for
accredited members, but details are yet to come although I recently talked to Mary
Lesperance who has agreed to organize the session.
NICDS: The Next Step
Following the non-renewal of NICDS funding by NSERC, I felt that it was important to
do all that I can to keep the idea alive. I have been in touch with Charmaine Dean to
discuss the matter. She will organize a regular invited session on interdisciplinary
research. Another session is being planned. To maximize its impact, it should not be
competing with other sessions. The plan right now is to schedule it late Sunday
afternoon, after the Board Meeting and the Workshops, and before the Mixer. It would
discuss the idea of creating a National Statistical Sciences Institute. Details are still to be
worked out. Invitations would be sent to a number of leaders in the country to ensure
ample participation from the Canadian statistical leadership. It is hoped that this session
would keep the dream alive and would lead to some plan. I am glad to report that
Charmaine has agreed to look into organizing such a session and she is looking at
recruiting some other people to help her with this.
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Other Invited Sessions:
As in previous years, a Call for Proposals of Invited Sessions was circulated on the d-ssc
list in July with a reminder in August. I received many proposals and selected a fraction
of them on the basis of quality and diversity of topics. I have been careful not to repeat
certain themes that were recently covered, including by the same organizers. I have also
asked some people to organize sessions on specific topics that I felt were missing from
the program to ensure sufficient coverage of topics.
Presence of Women in the Invited Program:
In the Call for Proposals of Invited Sessions, as well as in my exchanges with the Section
Presidents, I raised the issue that women were underrepresented in the Invited Program as
organizers and invited speakers. I suggested to organizers to look beyond their usual
professional network and that they could often identify women who would be excellent
additions to their session. Although it is still a bit early, I have the feeling that the
message will have helped.
Schedule:
I propose a daily schedule similar to the meeting in Ottawa. It features two plenary
sessions per day (of 90 minutes in the morning and 60 minutes in the afternoon) and three
parallel sessions per day, for a total of six plenary sessions and nine parallel sessions.
8:3010:00
10:3012:00
13:3014:30
14:3516:05
16:3018:00
Sunday
- 3 workshops
(various
schedules)
Session on a
National Institute
(tentative)
18:0019:00
Monday
SSC Pres. Inv.
Add. (Welcome at
8:30)
Parallel 1
Tuesday
SSC Gold
Medal (8:4510:00)
Parallel 4
Wednesday
Pierre-Robillard & CJS
Award (were together
until 2005)
Parallel 7
Plenary 2
Plenary 4
CRM-SSC Prize
Parallel 2
Parallel 5
Parallel 8
Parallel 3
Parallel 6
Parallel 9
4 Section AGM
AGM (18:00(plus NSERC, plus 19:30)
ASSQ)
The plenary talks would be the SSC Presidential Invited Address, the Gold Medal, and
the Pierre-Robillard and CJS Prizes (two 45-minute talks in a single session) in the
morning. For the afternoon plenary talks, the CRM-SSC Prize is planned on Wednesday
afternoon. I am also planning to have the SSC Impact Award talk of Rick Routledge in
one of the plenary time slots. The last afternoon plenary time slot is still up in the air,
although some ideas are being considered.
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Please note that the scientific sessions would end at 6pm, even on Wednesday. Some
may feel that this is too late, especially on Wednesday. A possibility would be to end the
meeting at 4:05pm on Wednesday and to stop with the 8th parallel session. I currently am
planning 41 parallel invited sessions. In 2009, there were 40 contributed paper sessions,
but only 30 needed rooms, the other ones being poster sessions of some sort. Hence, I am
expecting about 71 parallel sessions needing rooms. Since there will be 10 rooms at our
disposal, it may be possible to schedule all sessions in 8 time slots. And there is still
some room for other invited or contributed sessions, if necessary. But that pretty means
that there would be around 10-11 parallel sessions (including poster, case studies, etc) at
all time. But adding the 9th time slot would not drastically change this. I will probably
attempt to schedule the parallel sessions in 8 time slots, but I will wait until I know the
total number of sessions before confirming that the meeting will end at 4pm rather than
6pm on Wednesday.
Invited Speakers’ Budget:
Thanks to Thierry Duchesne and his team as well as the SSC Executive, it has been
possible to plan to have an invited speakers’ budget of 30,000$. As in previous years,
sessions organized by sections will share about 12,800$, i.e. about 3,200$ per section (if
the overall invited speakers’ budget is to be decreased in future years, this policy may
have to be revisited). Another 6,600$ is planned for some of the plenary speakers (award
winners with an NSERC grant will not receive any funding). This leaves about 10,600$.
Funds are likely to be needed for the following speakers. The Statistics and Science
session organized by Agnes Herzberg has a speaker from Ottawa, one from Toronto, and
a third one is expected to come from San Francisco. Depending if their fees are waived
(which is sometimes the case, but for this session only) or explicitly paid and then
reimbursed, the total cost of this session is likely to be high. Two of the speakers for the
Introductory Overview Lectures should probably get their expenses reimbursed,
tentatively one from the US and one from England. One session on education may
require some funding for some prestigious speakers (e.g. Debbie Nolan of Berkeley; this
session may or may not materialize). I am still waiting to select the last plenary speaker.
Depending on the choice, some funding may help. In the end, I doubt that I will allocate
the whole amount and as in the past, probably not all of it will be claimed (although by
concentrating more funding on fewer speakers as opposed to 400$ to many speakers, a
larger proportion of the allocated funds may be claimed than in the past).
Christian Léger
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Report from the Local Arrangements Committee
SSC 2010 Annual Meeting
Laval University, Québec City
SSC Board Meeting
October 2009
This report summarizes our work and our plans for the 2010 annual meeting in Québec
City. A schedule of the activities that we are planning and their incidence on the budget
are outlined in Appendix A of this report.
Committee composition
The Local Arrangements Committee (LAC) of the 2010 meeting is chaired by Thierry
Duchesne and counts 6 members: Thierry Duchesne, Louis-Paul Rivest, Lajmi Lakhal
Chaieb, Gaétan Daigle, Sylvie Lambert and Sophie Baillargeon.
Facilities on campus
We have already reserved several facilities for the meeting.
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Conference rooms: All workshops and scientific conferences will take place in the
brand new Vandry building, where we have 10 rooms of various sizes (from 20 to
200 seats) reserved for us for the entire duration of the meeting. The only
exceptions are the plenary sessions, which will take place in the University
Theatre (625 seats). Though we have reserved the University Theatre for all
plenary sessions, in March we might be able to cancel some of the reservations if
the 500 seat auditorium of the Pouliot building, which is closer to the Vandry
building, becomes available.
Meeting room: For the finance, board and various committee meetings, we have
reserved a large meeting room in the Kruger building. This room can easily be set
up to accommodate one large committee meeting or several simultaneous small
committee meetings.
Welcoming mixer and graduate student BBQ: These will take place on campus in
the Atrium of the De Koninck building.
Registration desk, exhibitors, poster sessions, coffee breaks: These will be located
in the large hall at the ground level of the Vandry building. Power outlets and
wireless Internet will be available. Some coffee and cookies will also be available
in the mezzanine on the second floor of the building during coffee breaks.
Computer lab: Though wireless Internet and technical support will be available in
the Vandry building, conference participants will have access to a computer lab in
the Pouliot building.
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Conference room equipment
The room for the plenary sessions will be equipped with two data projectors and two
screens. The rooms for the workshops and the parallel sessions will be equipped with one
laptop computer (with MS Office and Adobe Acrobat Reader), one data projector and one
screen.
Conference web site
The conference web site (http://www.ssc.ca/2010/index_e.html) has been up and running
for nearly 10 months. It is maintained by Sophie Baillargeon. For the moment, people can
find information about accommodation, how to travel to Québec City and links to
touristic information.
Banquet
The banquet will be held in one of the two Sainte-Foy hotels, Hotel Plaza Québec. There
is a large room that can accommodate a little over 600 people. This is one of the very few
rooms of this size in the city, and it is available to us at no cost. We are planning to
organize transportation from the campus to the banquet at the end of the AGM and from
the banquet to the residences and hotel after the evening.
Social events
Other than the banquet that will take place on Tuesday night, we are organizing a
welcoming mixer on Sunday night and a graduate student BBQ on Monday night. These
events will take place on campus, which makes it simple for people to attend after the
sessions and to return to the residences, the Sainte-Foy hotels or downtown at the end of
the event.
We are also trying to set up discounts for various attractions in the Québec City area for
participants who are planning to stick around for a few days after the meeting. We will
put the relevant information on the web site and/or in the conference bags.
Money raising
We have already started to contact various organizations (software companies,
publishers, government organizations, local companies) to raise money. Some have
expressed some interests. We are also counting on a grant from the math institutes.
Opening ceremony
We already have a confirmation that the university’s vice-president of research (who, by
the way, was a good client of our statistical consulting service!) will say a word at the
opening ceremony.
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Accomodation
Blocks of rooms have been reserved for the meeting participants in three hotels: two in
the Sainte-Foy district (about 2.5 km west of the campus) and one downtown near the
Saint-Jean gate to the Old City (6 km east of the campus, but travel between downtown
and Laval University is simple and efficient by public transit). Blocks of rooms have also
been booked at the university residences. Details (cost, maps, phone numbers, online
reservations, etc.) are already available on the conference website (of course there are
several more hotels in/near the Old City or in Sainte-Foy, and people should not have any
trouble to find a place to stay at that time of year):
http://www.ssc.ca/2010/accomodation_e.html.
Note that given the fact that the meeting will take place just before the start of the
touristic season in Québec City, release dates for the blocks of room have been set earlier
than what we are used to by the hotels, i.e., 45 days before the first day of the meeting.
Food
For SSC events: We are planning to order coffee breaks in the morning and the afternoon
from Sunday to Wednesday. We are also planning to order lunch for the Sunday Board
meeting as well as the various SSC committee meetings. Finally, we will order dinner for
the Wednesday Board meeting. [Note: If some of the workshops would like to have lunch
included with their registration, they should inform the LOC of the number of lunches to
order and of the corresponding budget.]
For purchase by participants: A few large cafeterias and sandwich stands remain open on
campus in the summer. There are also several shopping centers with large food courts
within a ten minute walk from the Vandry building.
Event staff
Technicians to help with the AV and computers will be available throughout the meeting.
All of our graduate students in statistics (about 25) will register to the conference. They
will be trained to use the AV systems and will be spread among the conference rooms
throughout the meeting. We will hire some students from our graduate programs in
mathematics to staff the registration desk
Transit
The university campus and the downtown area are well deserved by public transit. The
Réseau de transport de la Capitale (RTC) has an excellent website where people can enter
their start and arrival points and get in return a very detailed itinerary. A link to this
website as well as information on how to use it will be posted on the conference web site.
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Parking
It is easy for visitors to find a parking space right by the Vandry building in May.
Participants can buy a daily or weekly pass. Instructions will be posted on the conference
web site.
Daycare
The hotels have forwarded to us the contact information of the private company that they
recommend to their clients. Information will be posted on the conference website and
interested participants will have to contact the company directly.
BUDGET
So far with 371 participants we would have a meeting with a balanced budget. The
likelihood that this number of registrants will be exceeded is quite high, and so we are
making sure that we can accommodate up to 600 registrants. Given the crowd of 550
participants at the Montréal meeting in 2004, a realistic yet conservative attendance
figure for this budget is 500 people. With the latter, we can conservatively expect a profit
of about $8,300. Here is a detailed explanation of the budget lines (the budget appears
three pages below).
Registration fees
We simply reproduced the fee schedule from last year’s meeting in Vancouver.
Revenues
Our revenue figures are conservative: they assume a higher proportion of student/retired
registrants (38% instead of the 33%-35% observed in past meetings) and that everyone
will register before the fee increase date. The sponsorship figures are also conservative,
since it is very likely that the math institutes will provide $10,000. We also think that 4-5
exhibitors is a conservative estimate.
Expenses
Per person
• Banquet: The room is free because we are holding the banquet in one of our
conference hotels and because we are guaranteeing more than 300 participants.
We are budgeting $80/person for food, taxes and gratuity and $5/person for
transportation from campus to the banquet and from the banquet to the hotels and
residences at the end of the evening.
• Registration fees: Based on last year’s figures.
• Mixer: The room is free, so we will ask for a cocktail reception for 2/3 of the
participants at $30 (including taxes and gratuity) per “cover”.
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•
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•
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BBQ: The room is free, so we ask for food for $35 (including taxes and gratuity)
per student. Non students will be invited to participate, but they will have to pay
$35 to do so and therefore they do not have an incidence on the bottom line of the
budget.
Coffee breaks: Our figures are inspired from the past few meetings. We are
budgeting $5 per coffee break per person on day 1, then 80% of that on the
remaining days.
Conference bag: The bag itself will be similar to the one used in Vancouver, but
with the sponsor logos on it. It will cost a little under $3 (taxes included). The
main element in the total cost of $17.50 is the USB stick that will contain the
abstracts, whose cost has gone up well over $10 in the last few months. We also
intend to put in some printed information for the participants (food courts,
restaurants, public transit, internet access instructions, etc.).
Wireless internet access: The cost is $4 per wireless internet connection. We will
purchase one connection per 2 participants (meaning that half the participants can
be connected at any time), which has been more than sufficient for conferences
held at Laval University in the recent past.
Photocopying, program book: We have a quotation of about $5 per participant.
The number of pages is based on last year’s program and does not include the
abstracts.
Abstract translation costs: Again, based on the past few meetings, at about $20
per 2 participants.
Question for the Board: The LAC is actually divided on the following issue. We
can do as in the last couple of meetings and distribute the abstracts on a USB stick
and not in print (and this is what is budgeted so far). We could also forget about
the USB and get back to the old method of distributing the abstracts in print in the
program. The latter would be cheaper (economy of more than $10/person by
getting rid of the USB for an increase of only $3 for the thicker program), but
perhaps less modern and ecological (though this assumes that people do reuse
their USB stick after the meeting). However the USB stick offers a sponsorship
opportunity. Does the Board have a clear preference for either option?
Fixed
• Program preparation by CRM: This will cost $1,000.
• Local employees: One technician for the AV on Sunday (one is there without any
extra cost on other days), one computer technician for the meeting duration, 4-5
graduate students in mathematics to staff the registration desk for all 4 days.
• Signage: For direction signs on campus and in the buildings.
• Insurance: the meeting is now covered by the SSC’s general insurance.
• Committee meals: Based on previous conference programs, 6 person committee
(except for the Board which we estimate as a 30 member committee).
• Invited speakers: The budget to refund the travel expenses of invited speakers has
been set to $30,000 by the executive and program committees this year.
• Room for opening sessions and plenary: The University Theatre is the only room
for which we have to pay a rental fee. We will also have to rent portable data
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•
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projector and screen since the plenary sessions usually have bilingual visual
support.
Tables, chairs, power bars: for exhibitors, coffee breaks and registration desk.
Laptops: Rental of computers to equip the parallel session rooms.
Phone: To get a phone and a phone number to reach the registration desk.
Boards for poster: We have none of those on campus, so they must be rented from
an external supplier.
Unforeseen expenses: Let us hope that we haven’t forgotten about more than
$5,000’s worth of expenses!!
Thierry Duchesne, LAC chair, SSC 2010
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Conference
Member
Student
Retired
Early registration
Late registration
400.00 $
450.00 $
150.00 $
175.00 $
200.00 $
225.00 $
# of participants
Break even
For approval
# students
# retired
# regular members
130
11
230
175
15
310
total
371
500
$113,700
$12,000
$5,000
$130,700
$153,250
$12,000
$5,000
$170,250
$31,535
$0
$9,904
$7,420
$4,550
$47,500
$0
$13,348
$10,000
$6,125
$9,646
$6,493
$742
$1,855
$3,710
$13,000
$8,750
$1,000
$2,500
$5,000
$1,000
$5,600
$2,000
$1,000
$5,600
$2,000
$0
$4,500
$30,000
$2,100
$1,000
$1,000
$1,000
$1,500
$5,000
$130,554
$0
$4,500
$30,000
$2,100
$1,000
$1,000
$1,000
$1,500
$5,000
$161,923
$146
$8,328
REVENUES
• Registration fees
• Sponsors
• Exhibitors
TOTAL
fixed
per person
EXPENSES
• Banquet (food 80$+ transportation 5$)
• Banquet room: free if more than 300 people
• Registration fee (17.50$) + Paypal fee (3%)
• Mixer ($30) (66% of participants)
• BBQ ($35/student)
• Coffee breaks ($5/break 100% day 1, 80%
other days)
• Conference bag + contents (17.5$/person)
• Wireless internet access ($4/2 persons)
• Photocopying for program book ($5/person)
• Translation ($20/(2 persons))
• Program preparation by CRM
• Local employees
• Signage
•
Insurance
• Committee meals
• Invited speakers
• Room for opening session and other days
• Tables, chairs, power bars
• Laptops for parallel sessions
• Phone + communication, registration desk
• Boards for posters
• Other unforseen expenses
TOTAL
PROFIT
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APPENDIX A
Schedule of activities planned and their incidence on budget
Here is a schedule of the activities for which we are currently planning.
Saturday, May 22 2010
Evening
• Exec meeting. Location: To be determined (most likely one of the hotels).
Incidence on budget: room rental
Sunday, May 23 2010
Morning
• SSC committee meetings. Location: meeting room, Kruger building. Incidence
on budget: coffee break
Afternoon
• Board meeting. Location: meeting room, Kruger building. Incidence on budget:
one lunch and one coffee break
• Special NICDS meeting. Location: meeting room, Kruger building. Incidence on
budget: none.
All day
• Section workshops. Location: three or four of the ten rooms that are reserved for
us in the Vandry building. Incidence on budget: none (accounting for the
workshop is outside of the accounting for the meeting … but aside from the salary
for one AV technician to be split among sections and coffee breaks, no expenses
are forecast)
• Registration desk open. Location: main lobby of the Vandry building. Incidence
on budget: telephone line, power bar & extension chords, poster board rental,
table and chair rental, staff
Evening
• Welcome mixer. Location: Atrium of the De Koninck building. Incidence on
budget: food and drinks
Monday, May 24 2010
Morning
• Opening plenary session. Location: University theatre. Incidence on budget:
room rental + staff + AV
• Coffee break. Location: lobby of the Vandry building. Incidence on budget: food,
drinks, table rental, power bar and extension chords
• Parallel scientific sessions. Location: ten rooms and lobby in the Vandry
building. Incidence on budget: poster board rental
During lunch time
• Committee meetings. Location: meeting room of the Kruger building. Incidence
on budget: meals for committee members
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Afternoon
• Plenary session. Location: University theatre (or auditorium of Pouliot building).
Incidence on budget: room rental and AV if in the theatre
• Section AGMs. Location: ten rooms in the Vandry building. Incidence on budget:
none
Evening
• Graduate student BBQ. Location: Atrium of the De Koninck building. Incidence
on budget: food and drinks.
All day
• Exhibitors. Location: main lobby of the Vandry building. Incidence on budget:
power bar & extension chords, poster board rental, table and chair rental, internet
access
Tuesday, May 25 2010
Morning
During lunch time
Afternoon
• SSC AGM. Location: ten rooms in the Vandry building. Incidence on budget:
none
Evening
• Banquet. Location: Hotel Plaza Quebec. Incidence on budget: food and drinks,
transportation.
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All day
access
Wednesday, May 26 2010
Morning
During lunch time
Afternoon
• SSC AGM. Location: ten rooms in the Vandry building. Incidence on budget:
none
Evening
• Board meeting. Location: meeting room of the Kruger building. Incidence on
budget: dinner.
• Exec meeting. Location: meeting room of the Kruger building. Incidence on
budget: coffee.
All day
access
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Report of Electronic Services Manager, SSC October 2009
I would like to report the following updates since May 2009:
1. In consultation with the SSC executive and SSC office staff (Alan Kelm and Steve La
Rocque) I will be issuing a RFP in October for migration of the SSC website to a
more sophisticated “content management system” (CMS). We will be seeking an
open-source CMS, with a webbased interface for editing and adding content.
Considerations will include portability, ease of use, ability to produce and manage
French and English content , and provisions for regular software updates and patches.
This RFP will focus primarily on “static” content, which is the vast bulk of material
on the SSC webpage. The intent is for the work to be completed by April 2009.
2. Once the RFP in #1 above is under way, I will begin work on a second phase, the
introduction of a “member portal”, currently called “My SSC”. This will ultimately
allow SSC members to log in and manage many of their member activities and
records. The model will be one in which various applications will be provided,
corresponding to different services. Examples include membership renewal, meeting
registration, abstract submission, electronic voting in SSC elections, updates to
membership profile, and services for specific subgroups (e.g., Accredited members).
The first priority will be to have a system in place that enables membership renewals
for 2011. This will require the system to be operational by Fall 2010.
Several steps are required:
1. updates to the SSC membership database,
2. migration of database to a server that enables multiple clients (e.g. office staff, web
programs, etc) to access and update information,
3. issuing of an RFP for technical work to develop the portal and interface it with the
membership database.
4. implementation of the RFP work. The portal will include a mechanism to allow
members to securely log into their account.
Steps 1-3 can be started prior to the “static content” RFP describe in #1.
3. I have made modest changes and updates to the webpage, including redesign of the
committee membership page and posting old issues of Liaison (courtesy of Peter
MacDonald) and minutes from the board and executive meetings (courtesy of
Chrisitian Genest). Routine activities, such as posting of award winners,
announcements, etc, and backups, are ongoing.
Hugh Chipman
Electronic Services Manager
October 2, 2009
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Report of the CJS Editor, October 3, 2009
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Survival
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1.0
Through the first nine months of 2009, CJS received 91 submissions. Time to initial
decision for these submissions is described by the survival curve below. The number of
submissions is down compared to last year (124 for the first nine months), but I feel the
the aggregate quality of submissions is higher this year than last year. Particularly, the
proportion of submissions I screen out right away due to obvious weakness or inappropriateness is 33% this year, compared to 43% last year. My conjecture is that the switch
to submission via the Manuscript Central website has had an unintended consequence.
Because submission is now slightly more involved than simply attaching a pdf file to an
e-mail to the Editor, we have lost some of the ‘nuisance’ submissions which frankly did
create unnecessary and frustrating work previously. For submissions which do pass the
initial screen, the experience with AE and referee opinions seems commensurate with
previous years.
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150
200
Days
With regard to the submission site, we still have some technical problems from time to
time, but some tasks are clearly easier and quicker now compared to the old system of emailing pdfs hither and yon. Wiley-Blackwell is good about providing technical support.
The AE opinion on the system is mixed. Since the next editorial board will start with
this system rather than switch to it two-thirds of the way through their terms, I suspect
it will go smoother in 2010. With mixed success, I continue to tweak the settings to try
to make the system more compatible with the CJS way of doing things.
With regard to published issues, we still seem to be in a comfortable steady-stat position,
with neither a shortage or backlog of accepted papers.
Attachment (5.3.1) Oct 09
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As I reported in May, with approval of the publications committee, a forthcoming issue
will be guest-edited by Brajendra Sutradar, with papers arising from the International
Symposium in Statistics on Inferences in Generalized Linear Longitudinal Mixed Models
held this summer. A more recent development is that some space in a future issue will
be devoted to papers arising from the Case Studies at the 2009 Annual Meeting. Alison
Gibbs, Kevin Keen and Liqun Wang have kindly agreed to act as guest-editors for this.
With only three months remaining in my term as Editor, I would say that I have enjoyed
the work and found it interesting. At the same time, three years is a long time, and it
does feel like time for a change! I am ready to ‘talk transition’ with my successor as soon
as that person is identified. Following the Wiens → Gustafson model (and I believe the
model for earlier handovers as well), I will retain responsibility for those 2009 submissions
for which the AE report on the initial submission arrives back on my desk before Jan. 1,
2010. And of course I will retain responsibility for papers further along in the revision
process. Those initial submissions which are still ‘out’ with an AE and/or referees on
Jan. 1 will be handed over to my successor.
Paul Gustafson
Attachment (5.3.1) Oct 09
2/2
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Report from the Editor of Liaison, SSC 2009
September 21, 2009
Financial Record:
The attached spreadsheet provides the information for Liaison expenses so far under my
editorship, and comparisons with the budgets allocated. The total expense has been kept
within the budgeted amount, although there have been some differences in the component
amounts between budgeted amount and actual expense. A larger portion has been spent
on layout and smaller portions on printing and translation. The translation saving has
been mostly due to the translation contributions of bilingual contributors, notably
Christian Genest. The smaller printing cost has been due to newer technology allowing
colour printing for less cost per page than older-technology black & white. I plan to
continue to use “The UPS Store” for producing these full-colour print-offs.
In reviewing costs, note the influence of the number of pages per issue and also the
number of copies needed for the mail-out.
Editing:
I would like to acknowledge of huge contribution of Christian Genest and Román
Aguilera-Viveros in reviewing the page proofs of every issue. I would also like to thank
my wife Jill for her help in saving me from more numerous editing errors. Jill has
become quite expert with the use of Adobe Indesign for the layout.
Content:
The items published are almost entirely determined by the contributions received in
response to the “Calls” send over the internet. So far, no items have been refused and
only a few have been abbreviated. The few additions have involved items in statistics
education, and this is in response to a request from the Heckman report of 2007.
Many of the photographs that appear in Liaison are thanks to the resource supplied by
Peter Macdonald. This is especially true of the four-page spread occurring in the August
issue, and recording the attendees of the Annual Conference of SSC.
Translation:
Paid translation services have been provided by Catherine Cox. Catherine has been
punctual on every task and also is careful to provide the appropriate format as well. I
plan to continue to use her services.
Attachment 5.3.3 Oct 09
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Liaison Budgets: 2008-2010 (as of Sept 21, 2009)
Larry Weldon
Editor, Liaison
Attachment 5.3.3 Oct 09
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Report of the Accreditation Committee
SSC Board October 2009
Submitted by:
Neil Arnason, Chair SSC Accreditation Committee
October 14, 2009
1. Activities of the Accreditation Committee July-September 2009:
a. Documents and website: I maintain the Accreditation documents and website. There
was routine maintenance and backup of documents, mainly related to the change in
address and contact information of the SSC. The accreditation and ethics brochures were
re-edited over the summer to correct the contact information, change the colour (to the
SSC red from a maroon colour). Some minor wording changes were made to the
accreditation brochure to correct errors and bring it up to date.
b. Renewals: starting in July, the SSC office and I have contacted accredited members who
are at risk of losing their status because they are delinquent in paying the SSC
membership and/or their accreditation dues. The following have not responded despite
several warnings and will be suspended (to resume their status they will have to apply to
the Accreditation Appeals Committee):
accred #
First_Name
Initials
Last_Name
Title
P.Stat. P.Stat. P.Stat. A.Stat. A.Stat A.Stat #100 #106 #108 #037 #021 #023 Barbara Delbert Jeffrey Robin Longdi Max A. E. A. E.N. Thomson Stewart Bakal Burkhalter Fu Nevill Mr. Dr. Mrs. Mr. Mr. Employer
University of Toronto Brogan Inc. University of Alberta Population Health, U. Waterloo University of Toronto Checkwell Decision Corp. c. Approval of new P.Stat/A.Stat: the July 1, 2009 deadline for new P.Stat. and A.Stat.
applications resulted in 3 P.Stat. and 4 A.Stat. applications. (By comparison, a year ago,
there were 3 P.Stat, and 6 A.Stat. applications). All applications have now been
reviewed, with 2 P.Stat. and all 4 A.Stat. being approved by the accreditation committee.
The summaries of the approved applicants are given below, and the Board is asked to
approve these. In the case of one P.Stat the reviews were mixed and steps to get
additional feedback from the reviewers and additional information from the applicants
are in progress. Motion: “The Board approves the awarding of accredited status to
P.Stat. #116 and #117 and A.Stat. #038, #039, #040 and #041 as listed below”
The number of accredited members in good standing after the additions and deletions
above, will be P.Stat: 108; A.Stat: 37
d. Mentoring: Judy-Anne Chapman has matched all new A.Stat approved at the May 2009
SSC Board meeting with mentors (there were 9 new A.Stat. applicants and 4 P.Stat.
applicants approved at the May 2009 Board).
e. Meetings: An Open meeting for accredited members and a meeting of the Accreditation
Committee (AC) were held at the annual meeting in May in Vancouver. Minutes of these
October 2009 Accreditation Committee Report to the SSC Board
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meetings will be posted to the website shortly. Judy-Anne Chapman attended the JSM
meetings last August and has been involved (along with David Binder) in providing input
to the ASA as they reconsidered an accreditation process similar to ours. The ASA
agreed to proceed with an accreditation program and Judy-Anne has agreed to let her
name stand for the implementation committee, so I hope we will have some input and
feedback as their program develops.
f. Members Services: (i) Mary Lesperance has agreed to organize a session at the 2010
annual meeting for accredited members only. She is preparing a survey to sound out
members’ preferences (ii) Judy-Anne Chapman has been in discussion with Hugh
Chipman about making some workshop videos and presentations available to members
through a members-only area of the SSC website.
2. Priorities for October 2009-June 2010
Through pressure of teaching and administration duties this term, it’s unlikely that I can
embark on much more than just “holding the fort” until the new year, when my duties are
considerably lightened. Some of the priorities for next year (as discussed at the 2 AGM
meetings mentioned in 1.e.)
a. Public relations: contact University statistics departments to accredit their courses for
facilitating A.Stat. approvals and to promote the accreditation program with graduating
students. Form a “public relations” subcommittee of the AC to advise and assist in this
work.
b. Members Data Base: work to develop and deploy a publicly searchable database that
members can also login into and maintain their own profile on. I will consult with Hugh
Chipman on this… if this goes out as a RFP, draw up the requirements; or look at
existing solutions.
c. Documentation: the operational documents need to be reviewed and updated. Form a
“constitution subcommittee” to review documents and recommend changes to the Board.
Incorporate valid suggestion from Mackay Oldford report to the Board (2006).
3. Accreditation of new members:
New P.Stat. and A.Stat. of the SSC/
Nouveaux P.Stat. et A.Stat. de la SSC.
2008-07-01 Competition
It is with great pleasure that the Board of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) awarded the
P.Stat. or A.Stat. designation to the following individuals:
C’est avec plaisir que le Conseil de la Société statistique du Canada (SSC) a octroyé la
désignation P.Stat. ou A.Stat. aux individus suivants :
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Photographs have been requested from candidates.
NOTE: candidates have been informed of the results of the reviews and that the decision is
provisional pending approval by the Board. Please keep these results confidential. The
Chair will contact all candidates following Board approval. to confirm the decision.
P.Stat. 116:
GRAY; Derrick, T.
M.Sc.
B.Sc.
2009 Candidate, Part-time
University of Toronto, Statistics
1999 University of Toronto
Mathematics (Statistics)
Current Employer: Director, Research Sample Design
and Control at BBM Canada
Currently employed as Director, Research Sample
Design and Control at BBM Canada.
My areas of expertise include media research, sample
design, experimental design, survey non-response,
panel balancing and management, database design and
management, and data analysis.
Currently working towards a Masters degree in
statistics at University of Toronto. Graduated from
the Bachelor of Science program at the University of
Toronto in 1999. Majored in Mathematical Sciences
(Statistics). I have done some graduate work as a
Special Student at the University of Michigan and
the University of Toronto in Survey
Methodology and in Statistics.
Email: [email protected]
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P.Stat. 117:
ROTHMAN; Lorne, D.
P.D.F
Ph.D.
M.Sc.
B.S.
1997
University of Alberta
Ecology/Population Biology
1995 Univeristy of British Columbia,
1990 University of Toronto
1988 University of Toronto, Zoology
Current Position: Senior Statistician,
SAS Institute (Canada)
Dr. Lorne Rothman is a Senior Statistician with SAS
Institute Canada, teaching and consulting in the
areas of statistics, time series analysis, and data
mining to a wide variety of private and public sector
organizations across North America. He joined SAS
in 1998. He holds Bachelors and Masters of
Science degrees from the University of Toronto and
a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of British
Columbia. His interests include applications of
Mixed and Generalized Linear Models, Predictive
Modeling and Time Series (ARIMAX) Forecasting.
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A.Stat. 038:
BLANCHARD; Nadeene
M.Sc.
B.Sc.
2008
2001
University of Toronto (Statistics)
QueensUniversity (Computing,
Information Science, & Statistics)
Current position: Clinical Research Associate, Toronto
Hospital for Sick Kids
I meet the requirements of the A.Stat because I have
successfully completed many statistics courses as part
of 2 degrees. I have a Bachelor of Science (Honours)
in Computing & Information Science & Statistics
from Queen's University, awarded on June 1, 2001 and
a Master of Science in Statistics, awarded on
November 13, 2008, from the University of Toronto.
The undergraduate degree required the completion of
20 courses, 10 of which were math and statistics
courses. The graduate degree required the completion
of 8 courses, all of which were in statistics.
I currently work as a Clinical Research Associate for a
scientist/epidemiologist at the Hospital for Sick
Children. In this role, my knowledge of and
experience with practical and applied statistics has
expanded. I carry out a variety of simple and complex
statistical analyses every day, in an ethical manner. In
addition, I have been the data analyst and a co-author
on 3 published Pediatric Academic Societies'
abstracts.
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A.Stat. 039:
CHEN; Weichun (Christy)
Ph.D.
2008
M.Sc.
B.Sc.
2004
2002
University of Victoria; Applied
Statistics and Economc Theory
University of Victoria; Economics
Sun Yat Sen University; finance and
economics
Current position: Economist, BMO Nesbitt Burns
Christy currently seves as an Economist at the
Economics Research unit in BMO Nesbitt Burns. She
analyzes and forecasts a variety of industries and
commodity markets. She also contributes to BMO
Nesbitt Burns’ monthly publication Goods and to
other publications.
Before joining BMO Nesbitt Burns, Christy held
positions in BMO Risk Management, AIG and
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. She has also
been a lecturer in Statistics and Economics at the
University of Toronto and the University of Victoria.
Christy has authored several articles in peer-reviewed
academic journals, including the B. E. Journal of
Macroeconomics and Economics Frontier, as well as
extensive BMO Financial Group publications.
Christy is a Certified Financial Risk Manager, a
Certified SAS Programmer and a CFA Level III
Candidate
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A.Stat. 040:
LO SIOU; Géraldine
M.Sc.
2008
M.Sc.
B.Sc.
2004
2001
University of Montpellier,
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Montréal, Statistics
University of Montpellier; Applied
Mathematics and Social Sciences,
Current position : Statistical Associate, Alberta Health
Services
Géraldine Lo Siou is a statistical associate with The
Tomorrow Project research team at the Alberta Health
Services - Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention and
Screening in Calgary, Alberta. She completed her
M.Sc. in Statistics in 2004 at the University of
Montréal in Québec, Canada and her Maîtrise
Sciences, Technologies, Santé in Mathematics
(specialization Mathematics, Statistics and
Applications) in 2008 at the University of Montpellier
2 in France. She has worked on various statistical
methodologies and analyses in sociology, psychology,
epidemiology and population health research. Her role
in The Tomorrow Project research team is to provide
statistical support for research activities carried out by
the team as well as by collaborated research scientists
and other cancer researchers.
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A.Stat. 041:
ZHU, Yi
M.A.
2008
B.A.
2006
University of Toronto, Financial
Economics
University of Western Ontario;
statistics, actuarial science with
economics
Current position : Analyst, TD Bank Financial Group
Having degrees in Actuarial sciences and economics
from Western and University of Toronto, I received
solid training in statistics and quantitative skills from
two top universities in Canada. I also gained hands-on
experiences in applying my statistical skills to analyze
and validate real data. For example, I applied time
series analysis to backdate financial time series data
during my internship with Ontario teacher's pension
plan and I validated several segmentation models,
such as logistic regression and decision trees, during
my work with Bank of Montreal. My current position
at TD is to develop methodologies for estimating
economic capital (upper quantiles of loss distributions)
for various bank portfolios.
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Report of the Student Presentation Award Committee, SSC October 2009
Members: Sylvia Esterby, David Haziza, Rhonda Rosychuk (Chair)
This report is for information only.
The Committee thanks Mary Thompson for her service as Chair. Rhonda talked with Mary
during the summer to get her insights and advice for 2010. Mary offered great suggestions. A
key aspect for 2010 will be the recruitment of more judges proficient in French to handle the
anticipated larger number of presentations in French.
An announcement about the award was made in the summer issue of Liaison. Most of the work
on the Committee will occur in the few months leading up to the SSC annual scientific meeting.
The SSC Committee webpage does not have any information about this Committee. One of the
goals this year will be to provide content for the webpage.
Rhonda Rosychuk, Chair
Student Presentation Award Committee
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Report of the Statistical Education Committee, SSC October 2009
For information only.
Recent Activity:
Grant Application to NSERC PromoScience Program
The committee has recently applied to the NSERC PromoScience Program for funds
($72,000 per year for 3 years) to support Statistics Canada in promoting Census at
School. Census at School is an international program to promote statistical activities
in school for students in grades 4 through 12. In the classroom, students complete an
online survey, analyse their class results, and compare themselves to students in
Canada and other countries through access to an international database that is
maintained by the Royal Statistical Society in the UK. In Canada, the project has been
run since 2003 by the Education Outreach program of Statistics Canada. Statistics
Canada maintains the Canadian database and provides survey questions and
curriculum relevant learning activities for the project.
•
If our application to NSERC is successful, the funds will be used to hire resource
teachers to visit schools to carry out these activities with students and to train teachers
in how to make effective use of Census at School. Statistics Canada already has a
network of trained resource teachers available, but does not have funds to hire them.
Some of the money will also be used to fund additional prizes at events such as data
fairs and the Canada Wide Science Fair and to cover the costs of administering the
grant.
In December we will learn whether or not the application was successful.
Other Committee Activities Planned in 2009-10:
The committee is also working on the following activities. For each activity, I have noted
whether SSC funds will be requested to support it.
• 2010 SSC Annual Meeting
The committee is sponsoring two invited paper sessions at SSC 2010.
Data Fairs
We expect to be asked to provide judges and prizes for data fairs in Ottawa and
Halton region as in the past. We will be requesting $250 per fair for prizes.
•
• Canada Wide Science Fairs
We plan to continue to provide a prize and judges for the Canada Wide Youth
Science Fair. The cost to sponsor one prize is $2000.
International Statistical Literacy Competition
We will participate in the Canadian stage of the next International Statistical Literacy
Competition; the finals will take place during the IASE meeting in Dublin in 2011.
•
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The SSC supported the travel to the 2009 competition in South Africa for Amanda
Ens, a 14-year old Canadian student who won the national competition, and Karen
Livingston Jeffrey, her teacher. Amanda placed second in her age category. Karen is
keen to be involved again and will be an excellent ambassador for the competition.
No funds will be needed until 2011.
Meeting Within a Meeting at JSM 2010
In conjunction with the JSM, the ASA has the “Meeting Within a Meeting” (MWM)
which is a professional development program for elementary and secondary school
teachers. The ASA pays most of the costs, and registration for teachers is $30. We are
in contact with the ASA organizers regarding the 2010 MWM in Vancouver, and we
have been assured that at least 30 (10 at each of elementary, middle, and secondary
school levels) spots will be reserved for Canadian teachers. We will be helping the
ASA organizers identify potential Canadian speakers for MWM, including speakers
who can address the details of the local curricula. We will be requesting SSC funds
(initial estimate $2500) to support the Canadian teachers’ registration fees and
accommodation.
•
Activities in Support of Undergraduate Teaching of Statistics
Many of the recent activities of the committee have involved support of statistics
education activities at the elementary and secondary school levels. In response to
concern about how we can influence undergraduate teaching of statistics two ideas
have emerged:
1. We plan to start and moderate a wiki for discussion and dissemination of resources
for teachers of statistics. Our current plan to start this off is to post activities and
resources presented during the statistics education sessions at the SSC meeting.
2. Preliminary planning is underway for a meeting of people interested in statistics
education at the SSC meeting in Quebec.
•
A final comment on outreach to mathematics education organizations:
Recently, SSC members have participated on behalf of the SSC in the Fields
Mathematics Education Forum, the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, and
the Canadian Mathematics Education Forum. All of these organizations are interested in
mathematics education at the elementary and secondary school levels. The consensus of
the participants and the committee is that we are likely to remain only peripheral to the
activities of these organizations and that our resources would be better used planning,
supporting, and promoting activities with a clear emphasis on statistics. These other
organizations are dominated by pure mathematicians whose interests are quite different
from ours. The planned activities of the committee listed above reflect this focus. We
may want to give future consideration to including activities in SSC meetings that would
be of interest to elementary and secondary school science and mathematics teachers.
Submitted by:
Alison Gibbs, Chair of the Statistical Education Committee
October 4, 2009
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Report of the Committee on Women in Statistics, SSC October 2009
Members for 2009/10:
Julie Horrocks (Chair)
Cynthia Bocci
Joanna Flemming
Nadia Ghazzali
Susana Rubin-Bleuer (ISI Rep.)
Leilei Zeng (Caucus Rep.)
2011-06-30
2010-06-30
2010-06-30
2012-06-30
2012-06-30
2011-12-31
COWIS/Caucus Invited Session at SSC 2009:
The SSC Committee on Women in Statistics and the Caucus for Women in Statistics
jointly sponsored an invited session, “Modelling and Measuring Pollution and Natural
Systems”, at the 2009 SSC Conference. The session was organized by Sylvia Esterby,
University of British Columbia Okanagan. The session featured research in three very
distinct areas.
• Yulia Gel, University of Waterloo, described work with her student, Bei Chen,
on procedures for generating statistical ensembles of surface temperature
forecasts using a hierarchical geostatistical model and sieve bootstrap. The
significance of such probabilistic forecasts is that they give an assessment of
the uncertainty in addition to the usual point estimate.
• Huang Mi Kim, University of Calgary, gave a paper on the results of a survey
of sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide at rural locations in Western Canada as
part of an epidemiological study of the effects of oil and gas industry
emissions on the health of cattle. The paper was joint with investigators from
the Universities of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
• Laura Cowen, University of Victoria, considered how to put into a Bayesian
framework a model by Cowan and Schwarz which incorporates secondary
radio failure data to adjust survival estimates from capture-recapture studies.
The example of tag loss during a radio telemetry study of Chinook smolts in
the Columbia River was considered.
Despite the 8:30 AM start the morning after the banquet, the session was well attended,
and it provided a sampling of interesting problems being worked on by women in our
statistical community.
Social Event:
COWIS/Caucus also sponsored a social event at 2009 SSC. All interested men and
women were invited. Participants met for dinner at Candia Taverna Restaurant on
Monday (June 1) evening at 7:30 pm. This event was organized by Leilei Zeng and was
advertised through d-ssc mailing list, on the SSC meeting website and in the conference
package.
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Childcare/Daycare at the 2009 SSC:
A childcare/daycare service (Nannies on Call) was advertised on the SSC Conference
website, and pricing information was given. COWIS member Leilei Zeng assisted Nancy
Heckman and Lang Wu from UBC in arranging this opportunity.
COWIS Website:
The SSC Committee on Women in Statistics continues to maintain its own website, at
http://www.ssc.ca/women/index_e.html, with information on our past and future
activities at SSC conferences, reviews of books and articles of interest to our members,
links to sites on mentoring and other issues, and links to organizations with goals that are
similar to our own.
Profiles of currently active female statisticians are posted on the website. Our newest
profile is on Julie Trépanier, and was obtained by Cynthia Bocci. Previous profiles were
obtained by Laura Cowen. The profiles consist of a set of questions (chosen from a list by
the respondent) and answers. The goal is to highlight successful individuals and show
women role models for others who might be thinking of such careers. We plan to
continue to expand our collection of profiles of female statisticians in Canada.
Study of participation of women in statistics in Canada:
We continue to analyze the data on the participation of women at the SSC meetings. A
new analysis should be available shortly.
Julie Horrocks, Chair
SSC Committee on Women in Statistics
October 3, 2009
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Report of the ad hoc Committee for New Investigators, SSC October 2009
The current members of the ad hoc committee for new investigators are:
Juli Atherton (McGill)
Yulia R. Gel (Chair, Waterloo)
Katherine Davies (UManitoba)
Geneviève Lefebvre (UQAM)
Jason Nielsen (Carleton)
Jeffrey D. Picka (UNB)
Matias Salibian-Barrera (continuing member, UBC)
Activities
1. On Wednesday, June 3, 2009, we held the second annual dinner of new investigators under the
framework of the SSC Meeting. The event was well attended by junior faculty members, PDFs
and senior PhD students. We had two talks, one given by Professor Paul Gustafson, UBC, and
the other one by Duncan Philips, a representative from the MITACS ACCELERATE
program. Juli Atherton, McGill, and Genevieve Lefebvre, UQAM, concluded the dinner by
presenting the results of the Quebec-Ontario workshop from April 2009
2. For the next SSC meeting in Quebec City, we submitted a proposal for the invited panel
discussion on problems and issues met by junior researchers, which includes job interviews,
grant proposals, papers, consulting, collaborating, balancing life etc. The confirmed speakers
are Kelly H. Zou, Pfizer Inc. and Harvard University, Paul Cabilio, Acadia University and
Nancy Reid, University of Toronto.
3. The NI Committee thinks that it will be very useful if one of the NI representatives will be a
member of the Committee on NSERC funding as the junior faculty members are typically in
a particularly disadvantage position when they apply for their first research grant.
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Report of the Biostatistics Section, SSC October 2009
Quebec Meeting:
The four sessions are in place, with the following organizers/topics:
Topic
Statistics in Cancer
Spatial Statistics and Envt.
Statistical Methods for Life History Analysis
Response-biased sampling and missing covars.
Organizer
Lehana Thabane
Patrick Brown
Richard Cook
Don McLeish
The section workshop is in place, and will be given by Miguel Hernan of Harvard on
causal inference: “Draw your assumptions before you draw your conclusions”.
Section goals for 2009-10:
Interaction with other Societies: We have been successful in raising our level of
interaction with other societies, in particular the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and
Biostatistics. SSC biostatistics has been invited to give workshops at the upcoming
CSEB student meeting in May 2010, and to continue working with CSEB in future. SSC
biostatistics was recently approached to sponsor an invited session at the 2011 Congress
of Epidemiology, to be held in Montreal.
Fundraising and budgets: The section ran deficits for several years, but in order to
maintain a base accumulated surplus, we have proposed budgets with minimal deficits for
2009-11.
Advocacy: We will continue our work on raising the profile of biostatistics, in particular
with regard to the position/role of biostatistics in universities and funding agencies.
Specific goals include progress on training of biostatisticians and funding within the
medical research environment for statistical methods research. We continue to work with
journals regarding statistical attestation; we have had useful discussions with the editor of
one journal and plan to approach others.
Professional Development: Over the past two years we have had invited session and a
pizza lunch session with students on collaboration and career development, respectively.
These were both well-received and we will continue to try to offer these types of
sessions.
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Report of the Probability Section, SSC October 2009
(For Information Only)
The Probability Section sponsored four invited sessions at the Vancouver meeting,
including a special invited talk by Peter Guttorp, chaired by Richard Lockhart. The
session, “Stochastic Spatial Models,” was organized and chaired by Ed Perkins (UBC). It
featured talks by Ted Cox, Frank den Hollander and Amanda Turner. “Stochastic
Modeling of Disordered Spatial Patterns” was organized and chaired by Jeff Picka and
features Christine Soteros and Balint Virag. The fourth session, “Empirical Processes and
Applications to Finance” was organized and chaired by Hao Yu and featured Piotr
Kokoszka, Bruno Rémillard and Hao Yu as speakers.
There was one contributed paper session sponsored by the Probability Section, entitled
Probability and Finance. I wish to thank Bruno Rémilliard for his excellent job as
President of the Probability Section and Wendy Lou, the overall conference organizer, for
her superb organizational skills.
The next Annual Meeting will take place in Québec City. We will offer our first
Workshop at this meeting. It will be a joint venture with the Business and Industrial
Statistics Section and will feature Christian Genest (Laval) and Johanna Nešlehová
(McGill) as the speakers.
In keeping with the Actuarial Science/Financial Mathematics theme of the conference,
the Probability Section will also offer two invited session of interest.
Title: “Probability, Regression and Time Series” (co-sponsored by the Business and
Industrial Statistics Section)
Organizers: Rafal Kulik (U. of Ottawa) and Hao (Western)
Speakers:
Reg Kulperger (University of Western Ontario)
Wei Biao Wu (University of Chicago)
Yuliya Martsynyuk (University of Manitoba), to be confirmed
Title: “Probability and Finance”
Organizer: Rafal Kulik (U. of Ottawa)
Speakers:
Miklós Csörgı (Carleton U.)
Zbigniew Palmowski (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
The other theme will be Mathematical Biology with two sessions:
Title: "Stochastic Dynamics in Biology"
Organizer: Lea Popovic (Concordia)
Speakers:
Nicolas Lanchier (Arizona State),
John Mayberry (Cornell),
Anita Winter (Munich)
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Title: "Stochastic Models in Population Genetics"
Organizer: Sabin Lessard
Speakers:
Bob Griffiths (Oxford),
Martin Moehle (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen),
One T.B.A.
I wish to thank the Program Committee of the Probability Section, Rafal Kulik, Neal
Madras and Hao Yu, for their excellent work.
Looking to the future, we hope to offer a workshop at the 2011 Annual Meeting.
Murray Burke
Probability Section President
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Probability Section of the Statistical Society of Canada
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting
University of Ottawa; Morissette 250; 26 May 2008
Called to order by President Edit Gombay.
1. Agenda approval: moved by Burke seconded by Rémillard Carried.
2. Minutes of 2007 AGM approval: moved by Rémillard seconded by
Kulperger. Carried.
3. President’s Report: Edit Gombay reported.
4. Name of Section: Proposed motion: That the name of the section
be changed to “Probability and Mathematical Statistics”. This motion
was tabled.
5. Approval of Section Regulations: two versions of the section regulations were circulated — one reflecting the proposed name change
and the other not. In view of the decision not to change the name the
latter version was considered. Approval was moved by Rémillard and
seconded by Burke Carried
6. Committee Reports:
(a) Publication Committee: Byron Schmuland reported.
(b) Program Committee: Murray Burke reported.
(c) Finance: Raluca Balan reported.
7. Executive and Committee Memberships: For 2008/09 the section executive will be: Bruno Rémillard, President; Edit Gombay, Past
President; Murray Burke, President Elect; Raluca Balan, Treasurer;
Richard Lockhart, Secretary
8. Adjournment: at 1800 EDT.
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Attendance
The meeting was attended by: Raluca Balan, Murray Burke, Miklós
Csörgő, Donald Dawson, René Ferland, Edit Gombay, Abdul Kadir Hussein, Reg Kulperger, Richard Lockhart, Éric Marchand, Don McLeish, Yuliay
Martsynyuk, Bruno Rémillard, Raj Srinivasan Barbara Szyszkowicz, François
Watier, Hao Yu, Yiqiang Zhao.
Minutes prepared by Richard Lockhart, Secretary
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REGULATIONS OF THE
PROBABILITY SECTION
RÈGLEMENTS DU
GROUPE DE PROBABILITÉ
As a Section of the Statistical Society of Canada,
hereafter called “the Society”, the Probability Section is
governed by the By-Laws of the Society, and by the
following Section regulations.
Comme groupe de la Société de la statistique du Canada
(«la Société»), le Groupe de probabilité sera gouverné
selon les lois de la Société et selon les règles suivantes.
1.
SCOPE
1.
MANDAT
1.1
The Probability Section, hereafter called “the Section”,
shall be concerned with probability and its applications to
statistics, mathematics, biology, finance and many other
areas.
1.1
Le Groupe de probabilité («le Groupe») s’intéressera à la
théorie des probabilités et ses applications à la statistique,
la mathématique, la biologie, la finance et à beaucoup
d’autres domaines.
2.
MEMBERSHIP
2.
ADHÉSION
2.1
The membership of the Section shall consist of individual
members of the Society who share the interests of the
Section, and have paid their Section annual membership
dues.
2.1
Le membership du Goupe sera constitué de membres
individuels de la Société qui partagent les intérêts du
Groupe et qui ont payé leurs frais annuels d’inscription au
Groupe.
3.
SECTION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
3.
COMITÉ EXÉCUTIF DU GROUPE
3.1
The activities and business of the Section shall be
managed by a Section Executive Committee consisting
of the President, the President-Elect, the Past-President,
the Secretary, and the Treasurer.
3.1
Les activités et les affaires du Groupe seront gérées par
un comité exécutif du Groupe qui sera composé du
président, du président désigné, du président sortant, du
secrétaire et du trésorier.
3.2
The membership dues shall be determined by the
Section Executive Committee. Any modification of the
current dues shall become effective at the beginning of
the next calendar year.
3.2
Les frais d’inscription au Groupe seront determinés par le
comité exécutif du Groupe. Toute modification au montant
de la cotisation entrera en vigueur début de l’année civile
suivante.
4.
OFFICERS
4.
OFFICIERS
The Section President shall be responsible for the affairs
of the Section, and shall serve as, or designate, the
presiding officer at business meetings of the Section or of
its Executive Committee.
Le président du Groupe sera responsable des affaires du
Groupe et servira de, ou désignera un, président pour les
réunions d’affaires du Groupe et pour les réunions du
comité exécutif du Groupe.
The Section President-Elect shall act as President in the
event the President is absent or unable to serve, serve
as Program Representative for the Section to the
Program Committee of the Society for its Annual
Meeting to be held in the year of his/her presidency,
and coordinate other statistical and professional
meetings sponsored by the Section.
Le président désigné du Groupe agira à titre de président
lorsque le président sera absent ou incapable d’agir, agira
à titre de représentant de congrès du Groupe au comité de
congrès de la Société pour son congrès annuel tenu lors de
l’année de sa présidence, et coordonnera d’autres
rencontres statistiques et professionnelles commanditées
par le Groupe.
4.3
The Section Past-President shall provide continuity in
the affairs of the Section, chair the Elections Committee
of the Section, and act as liaison with the Elections
Committee of the Society.
4.3
Le président sortant du Groupe apportera de la continuité
aux affaires du Groupe, présidera le comité d’élection du
Groupe et agira à titre d’agent de liaison avec le comité
d’élection de la Société.
4.4
The Section Secretary shall serve as secretary of annual
and other business meetings of the Section or of its
Executive Committee, prepare the minutes of such
meetings, keep these minutes and other records of the
Section, maintain a list of current members, respond to
requests from members, and see that all notices are duly
given in accordance with these regulations.
4.4
Le secrétaire du Groupe agira à titre de secrétaire lors de
l’assemblée annuelle et autres réunions d’affaires du
Groupe ou de son comité exécutif, préparera le procès
verbal de ces réunions, conservera ces procès verbaux et
autres archives du Groupe, maintiendra une liste des
membres actifs, répondra aux demandes des membres et
s’assurera que tous les avis sont publiés selon les
présentes règles.
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4.5
The Section Treasurer shall manage the fiscal affairs of
the Section, and shall present an annual budget for the
Section to the Board of Directors of the Society and to
the annual meeting of the Section.
4.5
Le trésorier du Groupe gérera les affaires fiscales du
Groupe et présentera un budget annuel pour le Groupe
au Conseil d’administration de la Société et à l’assemblée
du Groupe.
5.
MEETINGS
5.
ASSEMBLÉES
5.1
The Section shall hold at least one general meeting each
year at a time and place to be determined by the Section
Executive Committee. Additional general meetings
shall be held whenever requested by the lesser of ten
members and one third of all members, or by the Section
Executive Committee. Any such request must be filed
with the Secretary at least thirty days prior to the date of
the proposed meeting.
5.1
Le Groupe devra tenir au moins une assemblée générale
par année à un endroit et une date choisis par le comité
exécutif du Groupe. Des assemblées générales
additionnelles seront tenues dès que demandées par le
moindre de dix membres et le tiers de tous les membres,
ou par le comité exécutif du Groupe. Une telle demande
devra être faite auprès du Secrétaire du Groupe au moins
trente jours avant la date de l’assemblée proposée.
5.2
The quorum at a general meeting shall be the lesser of
one third of all members and ten members of the Section
5.2
Le quorum lors d’une assemblée générale sera le
moindre de dix membres et le tiers de tous les membres.
5.3
Written notice of meeting shall be sent to each member
of the Section at least thirty days prior to any general
meeting of the Section.
5.3
Un avis écrit sera envoyé à tous les membres du Groupe
au moins trente jours avant la tenue de toute assemblée
générale du Groupe.
6.
ELECTIONS AND TERMS OF OFFICE
6.
ÉLECTIONS ET DURÉE DES MANDATS
6.1
The Section President-Elect shall be elected annually,
serving as such for one year, and shall then become
Section President for the following year, and PastPresident the next year.
6.1
Le président désigné du Groupe sera élu annuellement,
agira à ce titre pour un an, deviendra ensuite président du
Groupe pour l’année suivante, et président sortant l’année
suivant celle de sa présidence.
6.2
The Section Secretary and Treasurer shall be elected
for three-year terms. The Section Secretary shall be
elected in years that are multiples of three. The Section
Treasurer shall be elected in each year immediately
following the year of election of the Section Secretary.
6.2
Le secrétaire et le trésorier du Groupe seront élus pour
des mandats de trois ans. Le secrétaire du Groupe sera
élu lors des années qui sont multiples de trois. Le trésorier
du Groupe sera élu lors des années succédants l’élection
du Secrétaire du Groupe.
6.3
No one shall be a member of the Executive Committee
for more than six consecutive years.
6.3
Personne ne pourra être membre du comité exécutif du
Groupe pour plus de six années consécutives.
6.4
Terms of office shall start normally on July 1 of the year
of the election.
6.4
Les mandats commenceront normalement le premier
juillet de l’année de l’élection.
6.5
On or before September 1 of each year, the Section
President shall appoint an Election Committee consisting
of the Past-President and at least two members of the
Section who have agreed not to run in the next election.
6.5
Au plus tard le premier septembre de chaque année, le
président du Groupe devra former un comité d’élection
composé du président sortant et d’au moins deux membres
du Groupe qui ont décidé de ne pas se porter candidat lors
la prochaine élection.
6.6
The Election Committee shall submit at least one nomination for each position on the Section Executive
Committee which will be vacant. Additional nominations
must be supported in writing by at least five members of
the Section, and must be received by the Past-President
on or before December 1 of the year preceding the
election.
6.6
Le comité d’élection devra soumettre au moins une nomination pour chaque poste disponible lors de la prochaine
élection au comité exécutif du Groupe. Les nominations
additionnelles devront être secondées par écrit par au
moins cinq membres du Groupe et doivent être recues par
le président sortant du Groupe au plus tard le premier
décembre de l’année précédent l’élection.
6.7
On or before December 1 of each year, the Section Past
President shall provide the Chair of the Election
Committee of the Society with a list of candidates for the
positions to be filled the following year.
6.7
Au plus tard le premier décembre de chaque année, le
président-sortant du Groupe devra donner au président
du comité d’élection de la Société une liste de candidats
pour les postes à remplir lors de l’année suivante.
7.
VACANCIES
7.
POSTES VACANTS
7.1
In the event a member of the Section Executive
Committee cannot serve a full term, the remainder of
the Section Executive Committee shall appoint a
successor to serve for the balance of the term to which
the Executive Committee member was elected.
7.1
Dans l’éventualité où un membre du comité exécutif du
Groupe ne pourrait servir tout son mandat, le reste du
comité exécutif du Groupe devra nommer un successeur
qui terminera le mandat pour lequel le membre du comité
exécutif avait été élu
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8.
AMENDMENTS
8.
AMENDEMENTS
8.1
These regulations may be amended by a two-thirds vote
of those present at any general meeting. Each proposed
amendment shall be placed on the agenda.
8.1
Ces règles peuvent être amendées par un vote du deux
tiers des membres présents à toute assemblée générale.
Tout amendement proposé devra être inscrit à l’agenda.
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