Biographical Notes on Lecturers

Professor Glenn Stalker

Glenn Stalker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University and an Associate Director at York's Institute for Social Research. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto and was previously appointed to Brock University's Faculty of Applied Health Sciences. His interest in quantitative sociology, survey methods and the R statistical environment has been used to carry out research projects in work and family, cultural sociology, time-use and political sociology.


Professor John Fox   

John Fox is Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics in the Sociology Department at McMaster University and an Associate Coordinator of the Statistical Consulting Service at York. He teaches at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research in Ann Arbor and is the author of Applied Regression and Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition (Sage, 2008) and An R and S-PLUS Companion to Applied Regression (Sage, 2002), among other works. Professor Fox holds a PhD from the University of Michigan.


Professor Georges Monette   

Georges Monette is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at York and an Associate Coordinator with the Statistical Consulting Service. Most of his research has been in the mathematical foundations of statistical inference. His recent interests are the geometric visualization of statistical concepts and the modeling and analysis of longitudinal data. He has worked in a number of applied areas, including pay equity and the statistical analysis of salary structures.  He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Toronto. For more details, see:
http://www.math.yorku.ca/~georges.

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