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AWARDS and HONOURS PRIX Et HONNEURS S S C VOLUMELIAISON 24 NUMBER • NUMÉRO 3 AUGUST • AOÛT 2010 Raymond F. Currie Louis-Paul Rivest David R. Brillinger AWARDS and HONOURS Paul Cabilio PRIX et HONNEURS Abdel H. El-Shaarawi MESSAGE from NEW PRESIDENT .............. Page 3 MESSAGE du NOUVEAU PRÉSIDENT ............... Page 3 CENSUS LONG-FORM LETTER .................. Page 6 LETTRE sur le QUESTIONNAIRE DÉTAILLÉ ...... Page 7 NSERC COMMITTEE LETTER ...................... Page 8 LETTRE DU COMITÉ du CRSNG ....................... Page 9 SSC 2011 ANNUAL MEETING .................... Page 15 CONGRÈS ANNUEL SSC 2011 ......................... Page 15 AWARDS and HONOURS .......................... Page 30 PRIX et HONNEURS ......................................... Page 30 SIMULATION in CLINICAL TRIALS ............ Page 58 La SIMULATION dans les ESSAIS CLINIQUES .. Page 58 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE STATISTICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA LE BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ STATISTIQUE DU CANADA COVER / COUVERTURE SSC 2010 AWARDS AND HONOURS Louis-Paul Rivest Gold Medal / La médaille d’or Raymond F. Currie Lise Manchester Award / Prix Lise-Manchester David R. Brillinger SSC Honourary Membership / Membre honoraire de la SSC Paul Cabilo Distinguished Service Award / Prix pour services insignes Abdel H. El-Shaarawi Impact Award / Le prix pour impact NOTICE TO AVIS À NOS ADVERTISERS ANNONCEURS Liaison est publié quatre fois par année, en novembre, février, mai et août. Liaison is published four times per year in November, February, May and Les dates de tombée sont les 15 octobre, 15 janvier, 15 avril et 15 juillet. August. Deadlines for material are October 15, January 15, April 15 Le rédacteur en chef se réserve le droit d’accorder un sursis de deux and July 15, respectively. Camera-ready material may be accepted up to semaines à toute annonce déjà mise en page. 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Pour une prime de 50 $, votre offre tional fee of $50, your Position Vacant ad will also appear on the Job d’emploi apparaîtra également sur la page des offres d’emploi dans le site Ads page of the SSC web site. Web de la SSC. 2 VOL 24 NO 3 AUGUST / AOÛT 2010 SSC LIAISON MESSAGES CONTENTS / Message from the Message SOMMAIRE President du Président Messages …………….…..…. 3 President / Président Letters /Lettres - Census Long Form It is a great privilege and honour to C’est un privilège et un honneur que de / Le questionnaire détaillé serve as president of the SSC, but I assure vous servir cette année en tant que président de - NSERC / CRSNG you that this is the first of mercifully few la SSC, mais je vous assure que je ne compte pas Editor / Rédacteur en chef articles I expect to burden the members of the vous accabler d’une série d’articles interminable. Announcements / Avis ....... 13 SSC with during my tenure as SSC president. Ma première tâche en tant qu’administrateur élu 2011 SSC Elections / Élections My first responsibility as an elected official devrait être de remercier ceux et celles qui ont 2011 de la SSC would normally be to thank those who voted voté pour moi, mais ils sont si peu nombreux que Call for Proposals / Appel de for me, but evidently there were few enough je vais les remercier en personne! propositions : - SSC 2011 and JSM 2011 that I can thank her personally. CJS Coming Attractions / La SSC, une organisation à but non RCS Articles à venir The SSC is a non-profit organisation, lucratif qui opère grâce aux efforts de nos CSEN / RCES fuelled by volunteer labour, and devoted to bénévoles, est consacrée à promouvoir l’ensemble SSC Call for Nominations / Appel à candidatures de la SSC statistics across the whole spectrum of its des activités statistiques au Canada, de la réflexion Upcoming Conferences and activity in Canada, from statistical thinking, à l’éducation, de l’application à la recherche. Workshops / Conférences et education, application and research. ateliers à venir 2010 International Methodology Je suis reconnaissant envers les membres Symposium / Symposium I am grateful to those members of the de notre société qui ont bien voulu présider ou international de 2010 sur society who have answered a call siéger à un comité ou qui se sont la méthodologie to chair or sit on a committee, or portés volontaires pour travailler en who have volunteered for a job on son nom. J’inclus là les membres et News / Nouvelles …........... 30 Awards and Honours / Prix et honneurs behalf of the society. This includes présidents de tous nos comités, les New Accreditations of the SSC / all of the committee members présidents des comités scientifiques Nouvelles Accreditations de and chairs, the program and local et des arrangements locaux de la SSC arrangement chairs of the annual nos congrès annuels, ainsi que les Peter Macdonald retires / prend se retraite meeting, and the members of the membres du conseil d’administration News from / Nouvelles de la : board and executive who work et du comité exécutif qui œuvrent University of Manitoba tirelessly to further the objectives infatigablement pour promouvoir les University of Quelph of the society. objectifs de la société. UNBC Don McLeish SSC Education Committee / Comité d’éducation de la SSC Members of the SSC are connected Les membres de la SSC sont connectés Canada-Wide Science Fair Winners / by a common thread: we have given over par un fil commun : nous avons tous consacré Gagnants d’Expo-sciences a large chunk of our lives to a discipline une grande partie de notre vie à une discipline pancanadienne because of a conviction of its importance, a dont nous sommes convaincus de l’importance, Photos - SSC 2010 .............. 33 conviction we often have difficulty imparting même s’il est parfois difficile de communiquer to others - family members, students, funding notre conviction aux gens autour de nous – Reports / Rapports ............. 53 agencies, government, administrators, etc. familles, étudiants, organismes de financement, 2010 SSC Elections / Les élections de 2010 de la SSC This, of course, is their fault. “They” gouvernement, administrateurs, etc. Tout cela SSC 2010 Media Intereset / Intérêt frequently refer to the importance of specific est bien entendu de leur faute. « Ils » parlent médiatique areas of application from economics and fréquemment de l’importance de domaines finance to medicine and technology, yet do d’application spécifiques, de l’économie à Consultants’ Forum / Forum not recognise the paramount importance of la finance, en passant par la médecine et la des consultants ............... 58 Using Simulation in Clinical Trial the one discipline devoted to making sense technologie, sans jamais reconnaître l’importance Decison Making / of the reams of data penetrating every aspect primordiale de la seule discipline consacrée La simulation à l’appui des of these applications and, increasingly, our à la compréhension de toutes les données qui décisions dan les essais modern existence. pénètrent chaque aspect de ces applications et, cliniques de plus en plus, de notre existence actuelle. Obituary / Nécrologie ........ 62 Nevertheless, our discipline’s Ralph Gordon Stanton connection to the pulse of the public and Néanmoins, notre discipline est Leo Raktoe decision makers seems to be quite remote. largement ignorée du grand public et des Advertisements / Annonces . 66 There are isolated pockets of recognition, décideurs. Mais il existe des instances isolées Memorial University for example The New York Times article de reconnaissance, notamment cet article paru le Thinking Statistically Books from Wiley SSC LIAISON VOL 24 NO 3 AUGUST / AOÛT 2010 3 MESSAGES (August 6, 2009): “For Today’s Graduate, 6 août 2009 dans le The New York Times, « For LIAISON Just One Word: Statistics” argues that the Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics », qui demand for statistics and statisticians has affirme que la statistique et les statisticiens sont et VOLUME 24 NO 3 increased and will continue to increase faster seront de plus en plus demandés, davantage que AUGUST / AOÛT 2010 than nearly any other discipline.
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