1,066 search results for “statistics” in the Public website
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Michael GiffinFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jelle GoemanFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Gino Bertrand KpogbezanScience
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Kevin DuistersScience
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Peter GrünwaldScience
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Laura ZwepScience
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Johannes Schmidt-HieberScience
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Bayes and Networks
Promotor: A.W. van der Vaart
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Cheating graphs: a lesson in statistics without arithmetic
Missing legends, illogical connections or three-dimensional graphs. There are many ways in which data can deceive. Five students took up the fight against misleading statistics. Their lesson series can now be found online.
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Jacqueline Meulman receives honorary membership at statistics society VVSOR
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics Jacqueline Meulman received an honorary membership during the annual meeting of the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VVSOR). This makes her the eleventh honorary member of the society.
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DNA-evidence needs statistical back-up
How do forensic scientists deal with complex DNA-evidence found at crime scenes? Giulia Cereda developed new statistical models to analyse them. PhD defense 12 January.
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Statistics Netherlands (CBS) starts initiative for Big Data research
Today, CBS launches the Center for Big Data Statistics (CBDS), a cooperation of an unprecedented scale in the field of Big Data. Leiden University and HumanityX are key partners.
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Using factchecks to combat misleading graphs
How can misleading graphs be effectively corrected, specifically for people with low graph literacy?
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Leiden SPSS project
Data theory research on the analysis on the multidimensional data
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United Nations Fellowship awarded to Statistics PhD Kevin Duisters
United Nations Global Pulse, an initiative of the UN Secretary-General on big data and AI, recently launched the Data Fellows program. Kevin Duisters, PhD in Statistics at the Mathematical Institute, was selected to take part in its first cohort of eight international students.
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Dutch Cancer Society (KWF Kankerbestrijding) subsidises statistical research
Marta Fiocco, professor at the Mathematical Institute, has received a grant for predicting survival outcome and improving the balance between prognosis and quality of life for soft tissue sarcoma patients (Personalised Sarcoma Care).
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Electoral Systems and Turnout: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design
Electoral Systems and Turnout: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design. In this article, published on the website SAGE research methods, authors Jaroslaw Kantorowicz and Tobias M. Hlobil discuss how a Regression Discontinuity Design can be executed.
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Diagnosing patients with the help of statistical physics
Doctors are there to diagnose and treat people. But sometimes a diagnosis can’t be made or doctors differ in opinion. Luckily, Alireza Mashaghi Tabari and his research team have developed a new framework to solve medical diagnostic problems. This framework can also be applied to many other research…
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Using statistics to prevent the loss of blood donors
The Sanquin blood bank gathers data on every donation. Around 720,000 donations are made every year. ‘That generates a mountain of highly valuable data,’ says Leiden PhD candidate Marieke Vinkenoog.
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Goodbye SPSS, hallo R: ‘Now we can help students who like statistics to excel’
After the summer, the SPSS statistics programme will be replaced by the new ‘R’ software for first year students. Hemmo Smit and Sjoerd Huisman, both lecturers in Methodology and Statistics, initiated this major change in the curriculum. That did not happen overnight.
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Harold NefsFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Frans RodenburgScience
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Sarah PlukaardFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Wouter van LoonFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Kees Verduin
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Rob TijdemanScience
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Xaver FunkFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jacq MeulmanScience
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Max van HaastrechtScience
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Richard GillScience
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Stepwise latent class analysis
The main methodological aspects of the use of stepwise LCA estimators under different circumstances.
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Playing dice with the Universe
The ultimate goal of cosmologists is to find a cosmological model able to explain the current observational data.
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Better Predictions when Models are Wrong or Underspecified
Promotor: P.D. Grünwald
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Corona statistics, Corona uncertainty
Lecture, online
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Segments and rules: a comparative study into the computational mechanisms underlying language acquisition
In this project we study the properties of statistical- and rule-learning mechanisms in relation to the acquisition and evolution of language. We ask to what extent these mechanisms are unique to humans - or to human language - by comparing the acquisition of vocal structure in two species: humans (infants)…
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Hannah BliersbachFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Sanne WillemsFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Henk KeldermanFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Charlotte van Schie
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Robust rules for prediction and description.
In this work, we attempt to answer the question:
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Aad van der Vaart Scientific Director Mathematical Institute
Prof. dr. Aad van der Vaart has been appointed as Scientific Director of the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University on Tuesday 15 September 2015. He succeeds prof. dr. Peter Stevenhagen who has been a dedicated Scientific Director of the Mathematical Institute as from 2007.
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Metastability for low-temperature Kawasaki dynamics with two types of particles
Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: F.R. Nardi
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Elise DusseldorpFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Arjen de VettenICLON
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Marjolein FokkemaFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anja van der VoortFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Vince CROFTScience
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Milco WansleebenFaculteit Archeologie
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Pieter KroonenbergFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Dirk van der HoevenScience