Up to 24 UOC may be taken in graduate subjects offered by other Departments or Schools within the University, subject to the approval by the course authority. Examples include areas such as econometrics, theory of finance, market research, optimization, operations research, transportation planning, business forecasting, total quality management, population genetics. For a detailed subject descriptions, click here . The project provides an opportunity to specialise in a particular area of Statistics to develop research capability and to understand, interpret and use in practice results published in scientific journals. The candidate presents a typed project report, in the layout of an article along with an oral presentation summarising the main points.
Typical projects require analysis of a substantial data set using advanced statistical software.
A convenient room is available for the students where they can work on their projects. The room is equipped with modern computing facilities. Recent Examples of Projects Transfer Function Modelling in Applied Time Series Analysis. Density Estimation using Wavelets. Markov Mixture Regression Models for Count Data.