84 search results for “statistics” in the Student website
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Hemmo SmitFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Mark de Rooij
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jelle GoemanFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Kevin DuistersScience
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Laura ZwepScience
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Michael GiffinFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Gino Bertrand KpogbezanScience
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Lude RozemaFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Thijs BosScience
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Peter GrünwaldScience
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Marta FioccoScience
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Johannes Schmidt-HieberScience
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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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Frans Rodenburg
Science
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Harold NefsFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sarah PlukaardFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Wouter van LoonFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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‘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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Kees Verduin
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Xaver FunkFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Eiko FriedFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jacq MeulmanScience
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Richard GillScience
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Rob TijdemanScience
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Max van HaastrechtScience
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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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Sanne WillemsFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Hannah BliersbachFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Henk KeldermanFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Arjen de VettenICLON
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Milco WansleebenFaculteit Archeologie
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Pieter KroonenbergFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Elise DusseldorpFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anja van der Voort
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marjolein FokkemaFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Vincent Croft-Science
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Tom WilderjansFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Dirk van der HoevenScience
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Jian WangFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Graduation Ceremony MSc Statistics & Data Science
Afstudeerceremonie
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Reinout HeijungsScience
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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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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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Board of Examiners
The role of the Board of Examiners is to ensure that study programmes adhere to their Course and Examination Regulations. The Board of Examiners oversees all tests and examinations within the institute and determines whether students have acquired the knowledge and skills required for the awarding of…
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Reality or coincidence? We need to move from probability to evidence.
In studies, it is an old acquaintance, the p-value. But mathematician Peter Grünwald wants to get rid of it. The p-value is too susceptible to fraud and can lead to a distorted picture of reality and chance. That is why he wants to work with the e-value. De Volkskrant spoke to him about it.
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Calling on universities and funders: make research information open
Crucial information about research, funding or how university rankings are created is often not freely accessible. The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information calls for such information to be made open. Professor Ludo Waltman is one of its initiators. What needs to change?
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New professor of Theoretical Physics: ‘The problems I study can come from anywhere in society’
The financial sector, supply chains and ecology. Not necessarily topics you might associate with physics, yet it’s exactly what new professor Diego Garlaschelli is dealing with. The common thread? Complex networks.
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You should eat herring on the coast and not in Maastricht
For thirty years, the Dutch Newspaper AD conducted an annual search for the best herring. This came to an end when economist Ben Vollaard, based on a statistical analysis, claimed it was rigged. But that claim doesn't smell right, says Leiden statistician Richard Gill. ‘The way you code and process…