November 20, 2013

What do statisticians do all day?

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The annual posting of our second-semester MSc and Honours project topics, which were handed in this week.

  • Modelling paua (abalone) growth and investigating seasonal patterns of growth in relation to temperature and genetic family
  • Investigating spatial and temporal patterns in trawl survey time series
  • Identification of spatial and temporal patterns in, and the factors affecting New Zealand fishery catch composition
  • Are newspaper health stories reproducible?
  • Evaluating computer generated designs
  • Model selection methods for supersaturated designs
  • Bayesian Estimation of Undetectable Reverberation Lags
  • Interactive web graphics using widgets and gridSVG
  • Producing HTML Tables with the xtable Package
  • Software for Time Series of Counts
  • Prediction of Super 15 and NRL games
  • Optimal portfolio rebalancing strategies
  • Creating synthetic census datasets using multiple imputation
  • Sustainable Spending in retirement
  • Predictors of on-road particle concentrations
  • Geographic and other sources of variation in the normal range of echocardiographic measurement of the heart
  • Modelling air quality extremes
  • Confidence Regions for Categorical Data
  • Clustering Populations using short tandem repeats
  • Are invariant sites really necessary in phylogenetic inference?
  • Working Likelihood Test
  • Meta analysis of smoking cessation trials
  • Searching for significant differential rules
  • On the use of sequentially normalized maximum likelihood for selecting the order of autoregressions when the model parameters are estimated by forgetting factor least-squares algorithms
  • Connections between the coalescent and birth-death sampling processes
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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 »