This session is being proposed on behalf of the Young Statistician group associated with the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (y-BIS), in collaboration with the Statistical Society of Canada’s New Investigator Committee. The aim of the session is to showcase recent work by early-career researchers at Canadian institutions in the realms of business, finance, and actuarial science. The topics presented in this session are intentionally diverse, but share the common thread of developing methods for practical use in the aforementioned domains. These topics include changepoint detection methods, stochastic approximation for data with triangular dependence, and robust, heavy-tailed versions of generalized linear models. The session is intended to be 90 minutes in durations with three speakers and no discussants (i.e., 30 minutes per speaker for their talk plus Q&A).

This session is organized jointly by the Young Statistician group associated with the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (y-BIS), in collaboration with the Statistical Society of Canada’s New Investigator Committee. The theme of the session is to showcase recent work by early-career researchers at Canadian institutions in the realms of business, finance, and actuarial science. The topics presented in this session are intentionally diverse, but share the common thread of developing methods for practical use in the aforementioned domains. These topics include changepoint detection methods, stochastic approximation for data with triangular dependence, and robust, heavy-tailed versions of generalized linear models.

Organiser: Dr Nathaniel Stevens 

Chair: Dr Nathaniel Stevens 

Speaker: Félix Camirand Lemyre 

Speaker: Anne MacKay 

Speaker: Philippe Gagnon