November 13, 2012

The light at the end of the tunnel

It’s the end of another semester, and we’re about to have a couple of days of presentations by our BSc(Hons) and MSc students, telling us what they’ve been doing all year:

Improving staffing schedules at a Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit

Clickers: A study of student opinion on audience response technology

Population modelling interactions between introduced and threatened species for conservation management 

Deal or No Deal

From question to design: Creating a guide for experimental planning and design in the biological sciences 

Balanced Incomplete Block Design in Multivariate Analysis

Use of multivariate omnibus test with mixed model analysis on heterogeneous nested data

Generalised Estimating Equations (GEEs) in the multivariate omnibus test

Web-based interactive graphics

Interactive Graphics for Data Quality Assessment

Creating an R meta-analysis graphics package

Monte Carlo Methods for Adjusting Confidence Intervals for Parameter of Point Process Models

Investigating if follow-up at outpatient clinics helps prevent adverse patient outcomes from Bowel Resection and Hip Replacement 

Methods of analysing hospital length of stay

Data management for combining data sets and macro simulation

Bootstrap methods in linear regression

Comparison of volatility estimates in Black-Scholes option pricing

Financial planning for retirees

A diagnostic for the Gaussian copula

Model Selection under Complex Sampling

BART vs Logistic regression: Propensity score estimation

Modelling and Prediction of Electricity Consumption

Brand attribute importance using choice elimination

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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 »

Comments

  • avatar
    Chris

    Are these open to the public?
    If so, when and where are they held?

    12 years ago

    • avatar
      Thomas Lumley

      That’s not a question that’s ever arisen before, but checking with the Powers That Be, the answer seems to be “No.” Sorry about that.

      12 years ago

  • avatar
    Chris Hughes

    suggest students develop alternative titles for their projects

    suggest Bart v Homer; who needs the donuts?

    12 years ago

    • avatar
      Thomas Lumley

      I’m sure the Department will give this suggestion the consideration it deserves.

      12 years ago