459 search results for “methodology and statistics” in the Student website
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Richard GillFaculty of Science
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Xaver FunkSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Anja van der Voort
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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New assumption-free statistics offer a better choice for many research studies
PhD candidate Daniël Gomon has developed statistical methods that could significantly improve research in fields like medicine and demography. ‘Mathematicians don’t like unrealistic assumptions,’ he says. Gomon will defend his PhD thesis on 19 June.
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Welcome to Leiden University
Welcome to Leiden University
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Rob TijdemanFaculty of Science
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Psychology MSc September 2025: Start Course Enrolment
Study information
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Beibei YuanSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Arie-Jan KwakFaculty of Law
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Civil Society and International Students in Japan: Methodology and Fieldwork
Lecture
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Sanne WillemsSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Annual report
Each year Leiden University, its departments and its faculties publish an annual report which contains all the important information and statistics for that year.
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Moons appointed professor by special appointment of the chair ‘Crime Statistics’ at Leiden University
As of 1 April 2025, Professor E.A.L.M.G (Elke) Moons has been appointed professor by special appointment of the chair ‘Crime Statistics’ at Leiden University’s Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at Leiden Law School.
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New Year’s reception 2022: towards a new kind of social science
On 11 January 2022, the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences opened the new year during a livestreamed reception. Dean Paul Wouters and Executive Director of Studies Kristiaan van der Heijden were the hosts. After several faculty prizes were awarded, our Dean expressed a new year’s resolution…
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Newsletter Student Support FSW March 2022
This Student Support FSW newsletter tells you all about the services provided by the FSW POPcorner, Career Service, and Community Engagement Service. You can read about upcoming activities and vacancies, and pick up tips on study skills, personal and professional development, student well-being, study…
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Max van HaastrechtFaculty of Science
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Henk KeldermanSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Daan ZunnenbergFaculty of Science
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Leiden workshop leads to special issue Journal of Osteoarchaeology
In 2021 the Leiden Osteoarchaeology Lab hosted an international workshop on methods to study past physical activity. It aimed to tackle a niche topic with the field: namely the method of studying muscle attachments to bone. Dr Sarah Schrader, one of the organisers of the workshop: ‘You can quantify…
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Jaap CorthalsFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Cheating graphs: a lesson in statistics without arithmetic
Missing legends, illogical connections or three-dimensional graphs. There are many ways in which data can deceive. Five students took up the fight against misleading statistics. Their lesson series can now be found online.
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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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Update #iamapsychologist: Why Psychology and the international bachelor's programme are essential
Psychologen laten zich horen over de plannen om de internationale bacheloropleidingen op te heffen in de Randstad en Tilburg. Het inititatief #Ikbeneenpsycholoog van Judith Schomaker op LinkedIn vindt navolging. Lees een selectie van de posts en ook het blog van Eiko Fried over de consequenties.
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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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Jeroen CodeeFaculty of Science
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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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Pieter KroonenbergSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Marjolein FokkemaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Career College: Working as a Data Scientist
Career and apply for jobs
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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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ePOPcorner
Are you looking for the best way to study? Then take 1 or more free online workshops from the ePOPcorner on Brightspace. The ePOPcorner study skills workshops are fully online, self-paced and freely available to all Leiden University students. The workshops are developed by enthusiastic and experienced…
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Tom WilderjansSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Dirk van der HoevenFaculty of Science
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Carel SmithFaculty of Law
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Maarten Kampert
Luris
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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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Vincent Croft-Faculty of Science
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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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Ben Ganschow
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Jian WangSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Milco WansleebenFaculty of Archaeology
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Teaching Statistical Reasoning Through Quantitative Replication
Workshop
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Elective credits
In addition to compulsory elements, most degree programmes also have elective credits. These are credits you can earn in a variety of ways, for example by taking elective courses, studying abroad or doing a minor.
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Welcome to Leiden University
Welcome to Leiden University
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Reinout HeijungsFaculty of Science
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Do you know how quantum can change society? Most people don’t
Quantum technology, statistics and a survey with memes: definitely not your everyday research. Julia Cramer (Leiden Institute of Physics) and Sanne Willems (Institute of Psychology) investigate how people perceive quantum.