Statistics and Sustainability

Translating Uncertain Knowledge into a Solvable Mathematical Model for Process Optimisation

Alessio Benavoli (email | all projects)

ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student taking the MSc in Statistics and Sustainability. The student must possess knowledge of numerical optimisation methods and linear programming techniques. This project aims to bridge the gap between human language and mathematical optimisation. By developing a method that translates natural language descriptions of process optimisation goals and constraints … Read more

Taken – Investigating the Reproducibility of Sustainability Studies which conducted Statistical Analysis

emhoward (email | all projects)

*This project is for a MSc in Statistics and Sustainability student. “Reproducibility, closely related to replicability and repeatability, is a major principle underpinning the scientific method. For the findings of a study to be reproducible means that results obtained by an experiment or an observational study or in a statistical analysis of a data set … Read more

Sustainable food production: Using statistical modelling to assess the impact of climate on yield production across multiple harvests of an agricultural ecosystems

Caroline Brophy (email | all projects)

ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student taking the MSc in Statistics and Sustainability. An agricultural experiment was carried out across multiple sites in Europe. At each site, species diversity was manipulated agronomic grassland plots, and the yield was recorded across multiple harvests. The climatic conditions vary considerably across the sites where the experiments were … Read more

A comparison of statistical methods used to model the effect of species diversity in agricultural ecosystems

Caroline Brophy (email | all projects)

ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student taking the MSc in Statistics and Sustainability. Increasing the number of species sown in an agricultural grassland system provides a potential way to improve the sustainability of the overall system. Experiments designed to test this typically have species diversity manipulated across field-scale plots, with a plot-level response such … Read more

Statistics in Business Analytics

georgiaa (email | all projects)

This project is particularly for the Students in Statistics and Sustainability. The interested Student should check the paper: Establishing the link: Does web traffic from various marketing channels influence direct traffic source purchases? | Marketing Letters (springer.com) and get in touch with me for discussing on this and similar projects.

TAKEN: Identifying relapse risk of vasculitis patients discontinuing long term treatment therapy

Arthur White (email | all projects)

This project is in collaboration with the joint School of Medicine/ADAPT health research project called PARADISE. 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. Treating people with vasculitis is difficult, because the most successful treatments, such as rituximab, have significant … Read more

Taken – Investigating the Reproducibility of Studies which conducted Data Mining or Machine Learning on Educational Data

emhoward (email | all projects)

*If a MSc in Statistics and Sustainability student is interested in this project, a variant of this project would be to complete it on sustainability data sets. “Reproducibility, closely related to replicability and repeatability, is a major principle underpinning the scientific method. For the findings of a study to be reproducible means that results obtained … Read more

Skill-based ranking system

Alessio Benavoli (email | all projects)

Academic year 2024-2025 ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student taking the MSc in Statistics and Sustainability. TrueSkill, a model developed by Microsoft, is designed to assess the “ability score” of video game players. This score is then used to create a leaderboard, which helps match players in online games. The model also supports team-based … Read more