Results for "statistics"

Projects

Forensic Analytical Research with Financial Focus including investigating potential Lending and other fraud

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With downturns in markets, fraud is often revealed (think crypto recently). This is an excellent opportunity for those interested in uncovering fraud, data science, and learning about research. Opportunity for those…

Faculty

Michael Findley

Affiliated Departments:
Government
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Findley's research and teaching address civil wars, terrorism, and development. He uses field experiments, statistical and computational models, and some interviews. He conducts ongoing fieldwork in Uganda,…

Peter Mueller

Affiliated Departments:
Statistics and Data Science
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Mueller’s areas of expertise include the development and analysis of simulation-based methods for Bayesian inference, including posterior inference and design, and applications in biostatistics and bioinformatics.…

Vagheesh M Narasimhan

Affiliated Departments:
Integrative Biology, Statistics and Data Science, Dell Medical School
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Our laboratory is broadly is interested in problems at the intersection of Computer Science, Genomics and Statistics. In particular we develop scalable and efficient methods to make sense of complex, large-scale…

Todd A Olmstead

Affiliated Departments:
LBJ School of Public Affairs
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Olmstead is the health economist on several large grants funded by the National Institutes of Health in the area of behavioral health. Current research projects include estimating the cost-effectiveness of:
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Lynette Osborne

Affiliated Departments:
Sociology
Research Interests:

Evaluation Research
Women/Minorities in STEM
Gender
Education

Purnamrita Sarkar

Affiliated Departments:
Statistics and Scientific Computation
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- Formalizing heuristics and algorithms that has been empirically shown to work well in practice.

- Scalable parametric and nonparametric models for dynamic networks.

- Using the nonparametric…

Sinead Williamson

Affiliated Departments:
Statistics and Data Science, Statistics and Scientific Computation, Information, Risk and Operations Management
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Nonparametric Bayesian methods for use in machine learning applications
Distributions over collections of measures indexed by values in some covariate space

Mingyuan Zhou

Affiliated Departments:
Information, Risk and Operations Management, Statistics and Scientific Computation
Research Interests:

Bayesian statistics
Machine learning
Developing statistical theory and methods, hierarchical models, and efficient Bayesian inference for big data
Development of nonparametric Bayesian priors for both…