Stats 531 (Winter 2018)
Final projects

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• Projects with source code are posted anonymously on the class webpage.

• Everyone has 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. In most cases, source code and data are available from https://github.com/ionides/531w18/tree/master/final_project. For computationally expensive analysis, results saved as .rda files may or may not be available.

• Some projects with confidential data are not posted.

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1. Financial Volatility of Google Stock

2. Investigation on Financial Volatility of NASDAQ

3. Relationship between CNH to USD Exchange Rate and S&P 500 Index

4. POMP Modeling for Spot-futures Spreads by a Variation of CIR Model

5. Hepatitis A in Michigan from 1966 to 1987

6. Coursera learner activity patterns over time

7. POMP modeling of temperature effects on population dynamics of a parasitoid–host system

8. SV in Mean Model for NASDAQ Index.

9. Variations of the Ricker POMP model of Lactobacillus crispatus bacterial counts in the vaginal microbiota

10. Bison population of Yellowstone National Park

11. Human Proximal Small Intestinal pH Model

12. POMP Model Fitting for US Mass Shooting Data

13. Applying POMP SIR models to Youtube Videos

14. POMP Model on Brazilian Industrial Production Index

15. A case study on Smallpox transmission dynamic in California 1928-1935

16. Stochastic Volatility of Nasdaq index

17. 1928-1931 Detroit Mumps Infection Analysis

18. Modeling Dengue Transmission via POMP

19. Analysis of SP500 Volatility

20. POMP modeling dengue in San Juan, Puerto Rico

21. Weekly stock price data of Altaba Inc. from 2005 to 2018

22. A case study of acute hepatitis A infection in Florida

23. Dengue in Malaysia

24. Transmission of Smallpox in Michigan from 1928 to 1945

25. Analysis on the Google Flu Trend and CDC flu data

26. Potential Models for the Population of Nicholson’s Blowflies

27. Time Series Analysis of Nintendo stock price

28. Modeling Dynamic Gene Expression with Extended Kalman Filter

29. A TS and POMP model for Tuberculosis

30. How Segmentation Affects Driving Motion Model Performance

31. Studying Gun Purchasing Behavior During the Obama Administration

32. Population of black-tail jackrabbits in Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge

33. The Ebola Epidemic of 2014-2016: Sierra Leone

34. Mixture Hidden Markov Model for Poverty Measurement using Longitudinal Data

35. Analyzing the Volatility of Bitcoin Market Price

36. Financial Volatility Analysis. Note: This project received a low grade. It builds on a previous project which is not cited.

37. Shigellosis Transmission in South Korea from 2001 to 2016

38. Volatility of the SNE Stock

39. A case study in measles

40. Financial Volatility Analysis of Dow Jones Industrial Average

41. Study of Varicella in Maryland

42. Modelling of SARS in Beijing April-June, 2003

43. Donation behavior: is the donor alive or dead? Governing the observed number of donors making a donation each month

44. Time Series Analysis for the Henry Hub US Natural Gas Spot Price

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