Who We Are
CANSSI is Canada’s catalyst for discovery and innovation in statistical sciences and for advances in collaborative research and training.
CANSSI programs support the pursuit of cutting-edge collaborative research involving statistical sciences, along with the communication and application of the results to science, engineering, and society.
CANSSI’s national office is hosted at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.
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CANSSI develops and operates programs that support new and
cutting-edge research and collaboration.
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Research Areas
CANSSI’s projects are extremely successful, with a wide reach through many facets of industry, government, and society. Application areas involved with CANSSI-supported projects include:
Data Privacy
Ecology
Risk management
Sports analytics
Human health
Astrophysics
Climate change
Fisheries
Surveys
Genetics
Financial markets
Infectious disease
Public health
Wildfire management
Earth sciences
Waterway engineering