Anson Ho is an associate professor in the Real Estate Management Department at Toronto Metropolitan University. His primary research interests include consumer finance, housing, and macroeconomics. Prior to joining Toronto Metropolitan University in 2020, Anson was a senior economist in the Financial Stability Department at the Bank of Canada (2016–2020) and an assistant professor at Kansas State University (2011–2016). Anson received his PhD in economics from the University of Iowa in 2011.

Marcel Voia is an economist and a research fellow at the Laboratoire d’Economie d’Orléans (LEO) CNRS. His research interests focus on theoretical and applied econometrics. His work covers several areas of theoretical econometrics: distribution analysis, dynamic models, and duration models with applications in areas of industrial organization, banking, energy, environment, political science, education, and health.

Dr. Nisha Malhotra heads the data analysis team at the Birthplace Lab at the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, where her recent research projects focus on inequities in maternity care in the United States and Canada. Dr. Malhotra is an interdisciplinary researcher focusing on global health, gender, and development. Dr. Malhotra earned her doctorate at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Murtaza Haider is a professor and Radhe Krishna Gupta Executive Chair in Cities and Communities at the Alberta School of Business, as well as the Executive Director of the Cities Institute at the University of Alberta. Previously, he served as the Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and a full professor of data science and real estate management at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). He has also been the Research Director of the Urban Analytics Institute. His roles at TMU have included Associate Dean of Research, Director of Internationalization, Director of the School of Health Services Management, and Acting Chair of the Real Estate Management program. Formerly, he was an assistant professor at McGill University, where he established the Urban Systems Lab.

Professor Haider’s research focuses on business analytics, housing markets, transportation, infrastructure, and human development in Canada and South Asia. He authored Getting Started with Data Science (2015) and has developed popular online courses in data science with IBM, including “Intro to Data Science,” which has reached over a million learners globally.

He is a syndicated columnist with Postmedia, and his weekly columns on real estate appear in The National Post and regional newspapers. He holds a master's and PhD in civil engineering from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Leslie-Anne (LA) Keown is the Executive Director of the Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment (CIPSRT), which focuses on well-being and mental health for public safety personnel. In this role, she brings her expertise and extensive experience conducting leading edge research and occupying leadership roles with the Correctional Service of Canada and Statistics Canada to CIPSRT.

Dr. Keown holds a bachelor of arts (First Class Honours) degree in sociology from the University of Calgary, as well as her master of arts (sociology) and her PhD (sociology) from the University of Calgary. She is cross-appointed to Justice Studies and Sociology and Social Studies as an associate professor at the University of Regina. She is also an adjunct research professor with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. She has authored numerous publications, including articles in the leading journals in her field, and has been the recipient of numerous academic scholarships and awards.

Dr. Keown is a Killam Laureate. Her research interests are varied but centered on the Canadian criminal justice system and research methodologies that focus on mixed methods or advanced quantitative techniques.

Kristin MacDonald is Executive Director, Statistical Services at StataCorp LLC. Kristin has been with Stata since 2006. Her primary responsibilities include Stata documentation, statistical aspects of marketing, and coordination of Stata training. She also collaborates with Stata developers, especially in design and documentation of commands for structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, item response theory, and causal inference. Kristin holds a master's degree in statistics from Texas A&M University.

David Schenck is a Senior Econometrician at StataCorp LLC. He earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Vanderbilt University and a PhD in economics from Boston College. His interests include time series, Bayesian analysis, and macroeconomics. At Stata, he is the primary developer of DSGE and other time-series features.

Jeff Pitblado is Executive Director, Statistical Software at StataCorp LLC. Jeff has been developing Stata since 2001. Jeff's most notable contributions to Stata include prefix commands svy, bootstrap, fmm, jackknife, nestreg, permute, simulate, and statsby, as well as features like maximum likelihood estimation, factor variables, predictive margins and marginal effects, structural equation models, multilevel mixed-effects models, finite mixture models, latent class models, item response theory models, and something else he forgot about. Jeff has a PhD in statistics from Southern Methodist University.

Chinh Nguyen is Vice President, Software Design at StataCorp LLC. Chinh has been with StataCorp since 1994. His primary responsibility is to oversee nonstatistical and interface development of Stata. He is the primary developer of Stata for Mac and Stata for Unix and is an active participant in developing Stata for Windows. Chinh has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Texas A&M University.