Southern Ontario Regional Association of the Statistical Society of Canada

SORA is the Southern Ontario Regional Association of the Statistical Society of Canada and the Southern Ontario Chapter of the American Statistical Association.

The purpose of SORA shall be to foster in the broadest manner statistics and its applications, and to promote unity and effectiveness of effort among all groups in the Southern Ontario area having an interest in or being concerned with statistical problems.


The 2024 SORA-TABA-DLSPH Workshop was held on Wednesday, May 13, 2024 at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.


The SORA 2024 Annual General Meeting was held at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, and as an online Zoom Meeting, on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Please contact the Secretary, Clement Ma, if you did not receive a Zoom link.


SORA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2024-2025

  • President (Southern Ontario Regional Association, SSC):  Tony Panzarella (University of Toronto) [term 2022-2025]
  • President (Southern Ontario Chapter, ASA):  Tony Panzarella (University of Toronto) [term 2022-2025]
  • Secretary:  Clement Ma (CAMH & University of Toronto) [term 2024-2027]
  • Treasurer:  Jairo Diaz-Rodriguez (York University, Toronto) [term 2024-2027]
  • Past President:  Fernando Camacho (Damos Associates, Toronto) [term 2022-2025]
  • Co-Chair, Business Analytics Seminar:  Vacant
  • Representative to the ASA Council of Chapters:  Wendy Lou (University of Toronto) [term 2022-2025]
  • Web Editor:  Peter Macdonald (McMaster University, Hamilton)
  • Member at Large:  Yingwei (Paul) Peng (Queen’s University, Kingston)

SORA Constitution

The SORA Executive welcomes your comments and suggestions! For more information, please contact sora@ssc.ca.

HOW TO JOIN

You can pay your SORA dues with your SSC membership, with your ASA membership, directly to SORA at any of our events, or by completing and mailing the SORA Membership Application with your cheque. For more information, please contact the president, Tony Panzarella. You do not need to belong to the ASA or the SSC to be a member of SORA. Some of our members pay more than once, through both the SSC and the ASA for example; we thank them for their generosity but you only need to pay once. The annual dues are $10 for regular members and no charge for students or retired members. Please note that because of fluctuating rates of exchange and differences in membership year end, the dues requested may not be exactly the same through each route.

To receive news and notices of SORA events, please sign up for the g-sora mailing list. You do not need to be a SORA member to join to the list. You may unsubscribe yourself from this list at any time. Only the list administrators may post to the list.