Subject:Statistics and Data Science

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This project will be supported by colleagues in the School of Medicine and the PARADISE research group. ANCA Vasculitis is a rare auto-immune disease in which sufferers are susceptible to flares, whereby a person’s immune system attacks their own body. This project will involve analysing data measuring patient’s quality of life using the EQ-5D procedure. … Read more

In this project you will use public datasets from Met Eireann and Dublin City Council to understand which factors influence cycling participation in Dublin. Very broadly, the goal of the project is to try and understand what kinds of policy decisions might help to promote active travel. This project will be supported by a colleague … Read more

This project will be in collaboration with Prof. Olive Healy in the School of Psychology and is suitable for students in the Statistics and Data Science, Statistics and Sustainability, and Data Science MSc programmes. The goal of this project will be to analyse data extracted from an online survey of adults who have received a … Read more

In this project we are exploring non-parametric methods for the estimation of probability density functions and for regression. The interested Student must be comfortable with Statistics and Mathematics. The Student must do a search about kernel density estimation and Nadaraya–Watson kernel regression. You may also have a look in Prof. Tsybakov’s book “Introduction to nonparametric … Read more

ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student on the M.Sc. in Statistics and Data Science. In this project, we’ll look at the various ways in which ecologists have attempted to answer the question ‘How many species are there?’. Some of these methods are statistical, and we’ll focus on those, but we’ll also take a look … Read more

ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student taking the online MSc in Statistics and Data Science. Survival analysis refers to models and methods for survival data, that is, data on the failure of a system.  Usually this takes the form of times when failure occurs, with the failure referring to events like the system no … Read more