November 23, 2011

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.

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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 »