October 1999
Volume 3, Issue 1

Inside this Issue...

Social Science Computing Laboratory
Faculty of Social Science
Room 1228, Social Science Centre
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2

E-mail: ssts@uwo.ca
Web: www.ssc.uwo.ca
Phone: 519 661-2152
Managing Editor: Ramona Fudge

SSC Network Update

STATLAB @ SSCL

Doug Link

In close co-operation with the UWO StatLab, the Faculty of Social Science funds a free statistical consulting and help service for its faculty, students and research staff. This service operates for two hours daily from the SSCL consulting room (SSC 1012). What makes STATLAB @ SSCL special is the professional calibre and personability of its consultants. Please stop by and meet Dr. Sim and Ms. Zhang for your statistical questions:

Dr. Dalice Sim, instructor in the Statistics Department, is the consultant two days per week. Dr. Sim has a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Washington and over fifteen years experience as a consulting statistician in the biological and medical sciences. For four years she was also a Clinical Ethicist at the Children's Hospital of Western Ontario, working in Paediatric Critical Care. Recent work includes assessing the burden of care of parents of medically fragile/technology dependent children; assessing the impact of decisions to withdraw life support on family functioning; and "How Should We Die?", a series of discussion materials about euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Ying Zhang, a graduate student in the Department of Statistics, is the consultant three days per week. Ying has completed her Master's in pure mathematics and statistics and is currently working towards her Ph.D. in statistics. For ten years Ying was an instructor and research assistant in mathematics and statistics. Her recent research topics include time series, statistical computing and financial modelling.