Stats 531 (Winter 2016)
Midterm projects

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• Following the class discussion, projects with source code are posted anonymously on the class webpage.

• I will contact everyone to give you the opportunity to have your name attached to your project, if you like, after the course is over and the class grades are assigned.

• Here are the projects. Source code and data are available from https://github.com/ionides/531w16/tree/master/midterm_project.

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1. A Study on Crude Oil Price and CPI Value

2. The Popularity of Miniskirt Over Time in China

3. The Association between Recent Cholera Epidemics and Rainfall in Haiti

4. Armed robberies in Boston

5. The thickness of the total Ozone in the Earth

6. Association between PM2.5 and temperature difference

7. The correlation between the suicide rate and unemployment in U.S.

8. Forecasting Chicken Pox Outbreaks using Digital Epidemiology

9. Monthly Brazilian Gross Domestic Product

10. Interplay of Climate, Macroeconomic Conditions, and the Demand for Coffee on Coffee Futures Prices at the New York “C” Contract Market

11. Forecasting retail demand using stock keeping unit (SKU) data

12. Time Series Analysis in US Total Retail Revenue

13. Non-Metallic Mineral Products Research Project

14. Weekly Maximum Solar Radiation Prediction Report

15. Association between Gross Domestic Product and US Interest Rate

16. Predicting the S&P 500 index

17. Monthly Fatal Crashes in Michigan

18. Daily minimum temperatures in Melbourne, Australia

19. Crude Oil Price Modeling and Prediction

20. The relationship between S&P500 and CPI

21. Time Series Analysis for Stock Data

22. The exchange rate between Euro and USD

23. An Analysis of Association between Yield Curve and S&P 500

24. Association between Cleanliness and Strength in the Colorado River

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