515 search results for “methodology statistics” in the Staff website
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Sanne Willems
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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KiKa grant for mathematician: how statistics helps fight bone cancer
Using mathematics to help children with bone cancer. It sounds a little strange, but for statistician Marta Fiocco, it's just her job. She gets a substantial grant from KiKa for it. With that money, she is going to study the effect of chemotherapy adjustments.
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Peter Grünwald develops a revolutionary statistical theory with an ERC Advanced Grant
Using mathematics to determine whether scientific results are significant or not. Peter Grünwald, full professor of Statistical Learning at the Mathematical Institute (MI) and senior researcher in the Machine Learning group of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant…
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Statistical literacy: ‘It’s about how we teach, not what we can teach’
Assistant Professor Lucie Zicha at Leiden University College (LUC) in The Hague is on a mission to bring statistical literacy to all undergraduate students.
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‘I use a statistical analysis to estimate my travel time by bike’
Why use Google Maps when you can also calculate your bike route based on your own data. Statistician and cyclist Alexander Dürre sees statistics in everything around him. He analyses data of soccer games and calculates the possible winners of cycling races. ‘When I have too much time, I apply statistics…
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Henk Kelderman
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Daan Zunnenberg
Science
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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These tips (might) help you win the EC football pool
Are you keen to beat your friends or colleagues and win the European Championship football pool? Statistician Marjolein Fokkema has some tips that might increase your chances.
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‘Most students are convinced that statistics is not for them. I am here to convince them otherwise’
'Frans Rodenburg is an excellent teacher who is able to convey difficult information,' say his students. In his statistics classes, he wants to make students enthusiastic for his beloved subject. 'Most students are convinced that statistics is not for them. I am here to convince them otherwise.' Rodenburg…
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Harmen van der Veer
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Carel Smith
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Elise Dusseldorp
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Pieter Kroonenberg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marjolein Fokkema
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Milco Wansleeben
Faculteit Archeologie
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Vincent Croft-
Science
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Statistical Learning and Prediction
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Statistical analysis in R
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Misleading bar and pie charts
People can be easily mislead with graphs. But they don’t necessarily stay misled, the research shows.
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Tom Wilderjans
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Dirk van der Hoeven
Science
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Probability words: everybody interprets them differently
What exactly does it mean when your doctor says you have a ‘good chance’ of survival? Leiden researchers discovered that there is a big difference in how people interpret such probability phrases. And that can be a problem, warns lead researcher Sanne Willems in her blog post.
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Legal Methodology
Research
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Statistical modelling of time-varying covariates for survival data
PhD defence
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Numerical exploration of statistical physics
PhD defence
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Statistics and Data Science Graduation Ceremony
Afstudeerceremonie
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Four Comenius teaching awards for Leiden lecturers
Five lecturers from Leiden University have received a Comenius teaching award. With the grants they can carry out an innovation project.
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Graduation Ceremony MSc Statistics & Data Science
Afstudeerceremonie
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Jian Wang
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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CADS student Simay Çetin wins FSW Master’s Thesis Prize 2021
Simay Çetin won the FSW Master’s Thesis Prize 2021 with her thesis “Interpreting Culture through Embodied Practice: An anthropological study of sexuality among Dutch Women with Turkish Migrant backgrounds”. She was supervised by Prof. dr. Peter Pels. According to the jury is Simay’s thesis not only…
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Thiosugars: Reactivity, methodology and applications
PhD defence
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Dutch Cancer Society allocates funds to a mathematician: for treating Ewing sarcoma with the help of an app
If doctors could better estimate a patient's chances of survival, this would help in choosing a specific treatment. It would be particularly beneficial for the rare and malignant Ewing sarcoma, which mainly affects children and adolescents. Mathematics professor Marta Fiocco has been awarded a substantial…
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Integration of research and teaching
Integration of research and teaching is one of the ambitions of our vision on teaching and learning (Learning@LeidenUniversity).
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Maarten Kampert
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Statistical learning for complex data to enable precision medicine strategies
PhD defence
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Structuring data
When structured properly, the data are easier to manipulate, analyze and visualize.
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Third LUCL Retired & Kicking Symposium
Lecture
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Civil Society and International Students in Japan: Methodology and Fieldwork
Lecture
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Five new Teaching Fellows appointed
Hanne Cuyckens, Michiel Dam, Anja van der Voort, Daan Weggemans and Paul Gobée have joined the Leiden University Teachers’ Academy. Lecturers from the academy can exchange experiences, develop themselves and share their knowledge and expertise with the rest of the university, for example through the…
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Psychology End of Year Celebration
Festival, Celebration
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Qualtrics
Qualtrics survey software allows you to create online questionnaires for your research. It provides various question types, branch logic and the possibility to export results to statistical software, such as SPSS.
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Introduction to qualitative interviewing for PhD
Research
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We need to talk about methods. The methodological potential of Area Studies within the Humanities
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Reinout Heijungs
Science
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Courses and training programmes
As a PhD candidate, you invest in your professional and personal development by following an University education and training programme. The courses and trainings will help you to conduct your scientific research, write your dissertation, developing your career and gain self-insight.
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New professor Elise Dusseldorp: ‘The longer you’re in research, the more humble you become’
Elise Dusseldorp has been appointed Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research. In the same way that she spends her spare time rambling through the forest, as a professor she sifts through colleagues’ research data. ‘I often come across information that doesn’t appear in the…
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Projects 2022-2023
In 2022-2023 eight (teams of) teachers received a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.
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Digital assessments
Tests and assessments give you a better idea of how well students are doing. Keep reading to find out which ICT resources are available for the various assessment methods.
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OSCoffee: Building a data competence center for Population Health Management
Lecture