I am currently recruiting graduate students at both the Masters and PhD level.

If you are interested in pursuing either a Masters or PhD in Statistics, and are interested in any of the research topics that I work on, please reach out. Even if you have a somewhat non-traditional background, but think that you would be a good fit, please get in touch with me.

These are funded opportunities with a lot of flexibility for you to grow and learn as a Statistician. Do not hesitate to reach out!

Research Work, Presentations, Grants, and Awards

On this page is a (sometimes updated) list of my talks, publications, grants, awards, and so forth. These are sortable and filterable, and may be more pleasant to scroll through than my CV.

Differentially private outcome‐weighted learning for optimal dynamic treatment regime estimation

Published in Stat. (Open Access)
January 17, 2024
Dylan Spicker, Erica EM Moodie, Susan M Shortreed

Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regime Estimation in the Presence of Nonadherence (Preprint)

Submitted for consideration (January 2024). ([Arxiv Preprint])
January 12, 2024
Dylan Spicker, Michael P. Wallace, and Grace Y. Yi

Preserving patient privacy in dynamic treatment regimes: private outcome-weighted learning (PrOWL).

16th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics), (2023, Berlin). (PDF of Slides)
December 17, 2023
Dylan Spicker

Differentially private projection-depth-based medians (Preprint)

Submitted for consideration (December 2023). (Arxiv Preprint)
December 12, 2023
Kelly Ramsay and Dylan Spicker

Challenges for Predictive Modeling with Neural Network Techniques using Error-Prone Dietary Intake Data (Preprint)

Submitted for consideration (December 2023). (Arxiv Preprint)
November 15, 2023
Dylan Spicker, Amir Nazemi, Joy Hutchinson, Paul Fieguth, Sharon I Kirkpatrick, Michael Wallace, and Kevin W Dodd

Addressing Modern Challenges to Truly Personalized Medicine.

Talk presented at the Research Institute in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Seminar, (2023, Fredericton). (PDF of Slides)
October 3, 2023
Dylan Spicker

Le secret statistique

Published in Accromath. (Open Access)
October 1, 2023
Dylan Spicker, Erica Moodie, Christian Genest

Nonparametric Simulation Extrapolation for Measurement Error Models

Published in the Canadian Journal of Statistics. (Open Access)
June 27, 2023
Dylan Spicker, Michael P. Wallace, and Grace Y. Yi

Preserving Patient Privacy in Dynamic Treatment Regimes.

Invited talk given at the Statistical Society of Canada general meeting (2023, Ottawa). (PDF of Slides)
May 30, 2023
Dylan Spicker

New Brunswick Innovation Fund - Talent Recruiment Fund

NBIF TRF award for $55,000 over a two-year period.
March 27, 2023
Dylan Spicker

Nonadherence in Dynamic Treatment Regimes – Moving Beyond Intention-to-Treat Analyses.

Invited talk given for the McGill University Biostatistics Seminars (2022, Montreal). (PDF of Slides)
October 19, 2022
Dylan Spicker

StatLab-CANSSI-CRM Postdoctoral Fellowship

Postdoctoral financing funded through CANSSI and StaLab CRM. 1 year of postdoctoral funding.
September 1, 2022
Dylan Spicker

Out-to-Innovate Research Fellowship

Out-to-innovate merit based research scholarship; $5000 USD value. Details.
September 1, 2022
Dylan Spicker

Nonparametric Simulation Extrapolation for Measurement Error Models.

Talk given at the Statistical Society of Canada general meeting (2022, Digital Conference [Thanks, COVID]). (PDF of Slides)
June 2, 2022
Dylan Spicker

The Harms of Historical Hyperbole.

Talk given at the Statistics and Actuarial Sciences Student Seminar Series (SASSSS). (2021, Waterloo). (PDF of Slides. Note, these slides were originally presented as an interactive presentation, rather than PDF, so some is lost in translation. You can view the HTML presentation here.)
June 29, 2021
Dylan Spicker

Measurement Error Corrections with Non-IID Auxiliary Data.

Talk given at the Statistical Society of Canada general meeting (2021, Digital Conference [Thanks, COVID]). (PDF of Slides)
June 10, 2021
Dylan Spicker

Generalizations to Corrections for the Effects of Measurement Error in Approximately Consistent Methodologies (Preprint)

Submitted for consideration (September 2021). (Arxiv Preprint)
May 25, 2021
Dylan Spicker, Michael P. Wallace, and Grace Y. Yi

Statistical Society of Canada SARGC Video Competition 2021.

Winning Team; Video competition, explaining the importance of statistics to a lay audience. Our video is available: ‘Using Statistics to break down COVID-19 misconceptions.’
March 2, 2021
Dylan Spicker and Melissa Van Bussel

Measurement error and precision medicine: Error‐prone tailoring covariates in dynamic treatment regimes.

Published in Statistics in Medicine (August 2020). https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.8690 (Arxiv Preprint)
August 4, 2020
Dylan Spicker and Michael Wallace

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral (PGS-D)

$21,000 / year; 3 years. Receive a competitive, 3 year award from NSERC, with added funds matched by department. Fully funded my PhD studies.
May 1, 2020
Dylan Spicker

OGS Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST).

$15,000/year; 1 year. Received a competitive, 1 year award through OGS.
May 1, 2020
Dylan Spicker

Statistical Society of Canada Case Studies in Data Analysis Competition 2020.

Winning Team; Case study competition for the SSC’s annual case study competition. Our project was titled: Forecasting iTunes popularity out-of-sample: in-sample validation for longitudinal and matching methods.
May 1, 2020
Dylan Spicker and Melissa Van Bussel

Dynamic Treatment Regimes and Measurement Error: A non-technical overview (where we mostly talk about video games!).

Talk given at the University of Waterloo Undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference. (PDF of Slides)
September 28, 2019
Dylan Spicker

CANSSI National Case Study Competition 2019.

Regional Winning Team; National Finalist; Case study competition for CANSSI’s annual case study competition. Our project was titled: ’SuperLearn’ed Delays: Partial Domain Adaptation in Binary Classification with Complex and Noisy Data.
September 1, 2019
Dylan Spicker and Melissa Van Bussel

Measurement Error in Precision Medicine and Dynamic Treatment Regimes.

Talk given at the Statistical Society of Canada general meeting (2019, in Calgary). (PDF of Slides)
May 27, 2019
Dylan Spicker

OGS Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST).

$15,000/year; 1 year. Received a competitive, 1 year award through OGS.
May 1, 2019
Dylan Spicker
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