What do statisticians do all day?
Well, for the past two days, we’ve been listening to our MSc and BSc(Hons) students presenting the results of their research projects. Here’s a list of titles:
Applying Propensity Scores to Compare Hospital Performance
Order book modelling on the New York Stock Exchange
What Foods are Safe to Eat?
In a Genetic Haystack: Exploring Sparse Microarray Time-Series
Network Meta-Analysis: A Simulation Study and Update
Genome-wide Heterozygosity and Successful Aging in the Cardiovascular Health Study Cohort
Dynamic Advertising Modelling by Implementing Bayesian Forecasting
Occupation-based Socioeconomic Scores: A Path Analysis Approach
Dotcharts in R – What, Whoa and Why
Simulation and Estimation of Stochastic Differential Equations
In or Out? Examining Whether Macroeconomic Variables Help Predict the NZ/US Exchange Rate
Bayesian Estimation of Variance in the Binomial Option Pricing Model
The Introductory Statistics Course: Student Attitudes and Perceived Relevancy
Using Principal Components for the Evaluation Likelihood Ratios for Forensic Trace Evidence
Assessing Genetic Relatedness for Invasive Rats
Hospital Restructuring: was it Harming Us?
Reproducible Research – The Report with Nothing to Hide
Choosing a Transformation or Distance Measure in Ecology: What Do You Throw Away?
Multivariate Extension of ATRIMS Using Copulas with an Application to the Stochastic Volatility Model
A Comparison of Lenth’s Method and APC for the Analysis of Unreplicated Experiments
Constructing Confidence Regions for the Stationary Points of Second Order Response Surfaces
Stepped Wedge Randomised Controlled Trial Design: A Systematic Review and a Case Study
Discrete Choice Modelling with VGAM
Today, the department is running an all-day workshop for high-school teachers.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »