Graduate Theses

Below is a list of the theses produced by graduate students in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science.

Semester	Student	Degree	Thesis	Supervisor
2025-2	Alice Roberts	MSc	A Filtering-Based Approach for Implied Volatility Surface Modelling	J.F. Bégin
2025-2	Erin (Jiarui) Zhang	PhD	Robust Bayesian dimension reduction with applications to outlier detection and cluster analysis	L. Wang & J. Cao
2025-2	Bingfan Liu	PhD	Dynamic survival prediction using longitudinal images	J. Cao & H. Shi
2025-2	Ken (Kangyi) Peng	PhD	Characterizing stochastic processes with applications in infectious disease and sports analytics	J. Hu & T. Swartz
2025-2	April Houweling	MSc	Machine learning approaches for automated classification of Southern Resident killer whale echolocation clicks in the Salish Sea: lasso regression or ensemble tree-based methods?	R. Joy & R. Tibshirani
2025-2	Angela (Anqi) Chen	PhD	Stratified Regression Analysis of Zero-Truncated Recurrent Event Data with Applications in Pediatric Mental Health Care	X. J. Hu & R. Rosychuk
2025-2	Hasitha Jayaneththi Koralalage	MSc	Three methods of generating space-filling designs: a comparison	B. Tang
2025-2	Adam Gee	MSc	Investigating experiential effects in online chess using a hierarchical Bayesian analysis	O. Ward
2025-2	George Thomas	MSc	Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects in a randomized controlled trial of a nurse-home visiting intervention on child outcomes: A causal forest approach	H. Xie
2025-2	Zikai Xu	MSc	Meta-analysis with overlapping subjects: an adjusted Fisher's method	L. Elliott & L. Zhang
2025-2	Vatsal Desai	Msc	Generalized design framework for collective defined contribution pension plans and benefit smoothing mechanisms	B. Sanders & J.F. Bégin
2025-2	Yichen Tang	MSc	Two-stage Bayesian analysis of thick-disk galactic white dwarfs	D. Stenning
2025-1	So Yeon Park	MSc	Spatio-temporal analysis of terror attacks in South Asia with extended Hawkes process models	X. J. Hu
2025-1	Matthew Parker	PhD	Advances in Ecological Modelling and Disease Analytics	J. Cao & L. Elliott
2025-1	Yingfei Sun	MSc	Optimal hurdle rate and investment policies in lifetime pension pools	J.F. Bégin & B. Sanders
2025-1	Renny Doig	PhD	Combining compound proposal mechanisms and annealing schemes to construct more effective modern Monte Carlo methods	L. Wang
2025-1	Chen Liu	MSc	A comparison of two extreme-phenotype sampling designs for sequencing studies of disease endophenotypes	J. Graham
2025-1	Jingxue (Grace) Feng	PhD	Advanced Bayesian Modeling for Public Health	K. Wang
2025-1	Yulia Kozhenikova	MSc	BLOST: Bayesian Longitudinally Ordinal Sequential Trial Design for evaluating respiratory disease treatments	H. Shi

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