A full timeposition is available with the Population Health & Info–Screening Programs of Alberta Health Services. Please click here for full details and application information.

We are holding the Biostatistics/SAGE (Survival Analysis Group Enhancement) Seminar Series this Winter Term. We meet at MS569 every other Friday, 4-5 pm, starting February 3, 2012. Click here for the tentative schedule of talks.

A full time limited term, maternity leave replacement, extending for 1 year, is available with the Tomorrow Project, Alberta Health Services. Please click here for full details and application information.

It's Calgary's turn this year to host the Annual Meeting of Alberta Statisticians.  Join us for an afternoon of statistics research talks by students and professors from University of Calgary and University of Alberta.  For details on the programme, click here.

We are holding the Biostatistics/SAGE (Survival Analysis Group Enhancement) Seminar Series this Fall Term. We meet at MS431 every Friday, 4-5 pm. Click here for the tentative schedule of talks.

A paper in a psychology journal re-ignites debate on statistical significance testing.  Read the New York Times article here. 

Statistician has made it again in CareerCast's Top 10 Jobs in 2011, coming in fourth behind software engineer, mathematician, and actuary. Read the rankings here.

The Department of Population Health Research with Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care has a position open for a temporary full-time Statistical Associate in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  For more information, please click here.

An article in WIRED magazine identifies 'statistical literacy' as the #1 essential skill students didn't learn in college. "You need to know how to swim through the data deluge, optimize your prose for Twitter, and expose statistics that lie," according to the article.

Steven Strogatz discusses the improbable thrills of probability theory.