Statistics

Overview

Possible areas of research in Statistics at Essex, University of, include: statistical modelling and smoothing, Bayesian computational statistics, nonparametric statistics, and longitudinal analysis, but interested persons are invited to contact our Department to discuss potential research areas.

Features

• Our data scientists carefully consider how not to lie, and how not to get lied to with data. Interpreting data correctly is especially important because much of our data science research is applied directly or indirectly to social policies, including health, care and education.

• We do practical research with financial data (for example, assessing the risk of collapse of the UK’s banking system) as well as theoretical research in financial instruments such as insurance policies or asset portfolios.

• We also research how physical processes develop in time and space. Applications of this range from modelling epilepsy to modelling electronic cables.

• Our optimisation experts work out how to do the same job with less resource, or how to do more with the same resource.