Methodology and Statistics focuses on the development, evaluation and application of statistical models for the analysis of psychological research data.

PhD candidates carry out a programme of independent research, leading to a PhD thesis in typically 4 years.

The group Statistical Science is responsible for research and teaching in statistics and data science.

The research programme Statistical Science is concerned with the analysis and interpretation of masses of data, the quantification of uncertainty using probability models, and the development and benchmarking of algorithms and methods with these aims.

The programme group Research Methods and Statistics has a wide expertise in research methodology. The group offers methodological support in many projects in the field of education and child studies, and develops its own methodological research projects based on questions arising from this field.

Welcome to StatiCS: the Statistical Consultation Service. The goal of the service is to provide statistical support to PhD candidates and other researchers.

The Leiden University Center for Statistical Science unites the statisticians teaching and researching at Leiden University.

The curriculum of the one-year Master’s specialisation in Methodology and Statistics in Psychology focuses both on in-depth study of theory and on the acquisition of professional and research skills.

Data science is now growing fast in many places, but scholars at Leiden University have been developing data science techniques for a long time already. Thanks to their broad-based expertise, Leiden statisticians are currently combining the achievements in statistics with the latest methods of statistical…

What is the best way to combine the environmental and economic data and how can we create an operational system to do so, thereby supporting the delivery of data to the Data centres on Products and Resources?

Developing and investigating statistical methods for complex data and models

In the master’s specialisation Statistical Science at Leiden University students will gain a thorough knowledge and understanding of statistical models, including their application and interpretation in a broad range of empirical research.

Promotor: R.D. Gill, F. Taroni

The Data Science for Statistical Science master’s specialisation at Leiden University gives you a better understanding of statistical models, especially in relation to Data Science, including their application and interpretation in a broad range of empirical research.

Peter Grunwald

The Graduate School of Social and Behavioural Sciences in collaboration with the Department of Methodology and Statistics and researchers in the field of Methodology and/or Statistics of the other Institutes provides training for PhD candidates and other researchers.

Science, Mathematical Institute (MI)

Promotores: J.C. van Houwelingen, S.A. van de Geer

Novel methods for understanding key aspects that are essential to the future of Bayesian inference for high- or infinite-dimensional models and data.

The aim of this project is to determine in which cases uncertainty statements resulting from a Bayesian statistical analysis can be trusted.

Science, Mathematical Institute (MI)

The Graduate School of Social and Behavioural Sciences in collaboration with the Department of Methodology and Statistics and researchers in the field of Methodology and/or Statistics of the other Institutes provides training for PhD candidates and other researchers.

Netherlands Statistics (CBS), Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam have started a collaboration in the form of a research project titled 'Enriching official economic statistics using data-driven modelling techniques'.

During my PhD research, I studied the photon statistics of light emitted by a microcavity that contains a single quantum dot (QD) on resonance.

Promotor: A.W. van der Vaart

Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

This thesis develops statistical methods for the analysis of high dimensional data: high dimensional networks reconstruction (Chapters 1-4), incorporation of prior information in networks reconstruction (Chapters 2-4), incorporation of prior knowledge in genetic association studies (Chapter 3).

This September a new Masters Track "Statistical Science for the Life and Behavioral Sciences” starts at Leiden University.

He is said to be one of the greatest living statisticians. Bradley Efron gave a lecture in Marekerk and opened LUXs, the Leiden University Center for Statistical Science, the first university statistics centre in the Netherlands.

In a recent TEDx Flanders event “Statistical Errors in Court”, Statistical Scientist Richard Gill speaks about the case of Lucia de Berk, a nurse found guilty of several murders based largely on statistics.

On February 15th 2018 former students in Methodology & Statistics (M&S) of Leiden University will share their current and previous professional activities to provide M&S students an insight into their career perspectives.

Promotor: R. Gill, Co-promotor: P. Massart

Data theory research on the analysis on the multidimensional data

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo