Serge Provost

Serge Bédard Provost is a full professor in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Western Ontario.

Education and career Provost obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics and Statistics from McGill University in 1984 under the supervision of Arak Mathai.

Provost's research focuses on multivariate analysis, orthogonal series expansions, statistical modelling, complex and matrix-variate distribution theory, computational statistics and pure mathematics; for instance, they involve applications in biostatistics, financial modelling, actuarial science, operations research, time series analysis, data visualization, geometric probability, microarray experimentation, optics, life testing, environmental studies, thermodynamics, and machine learning. He has authored or co-authored approximately 140 articles. As well, he is the co-author of four books. Parenthetically, the website of the latest one which is 'Open Access', has been accessed 90,000 times between October 2022 and December 2024.

Among other distinctions, Provost is a Fellow and Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society. He is the recipient of three teaching award (2005, 2008, 2010). Along with one of his doctoral students, he received the 1996 Jacob Wolfowitz Prize for an innovative paper on the distribution of the serial correlation coefficient. He became an Associate of the Society of Actuaries in 1980.

Books

Selected publications

Provost, Serge B. and Rudiuk, Edmund M. (1995). The Sampling Distribution of the Serial Correlation Coefficient American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences 15 (1-2), 57-81.