Projects
A new statistical procedure to provide better answers to substantive research questions: analysis of effects combined with informative hypothesis testinG Ghent University
ANOVA is one of the most popular statistical techniques in the social and behavioral sciences.
Unfortunately, the ANOVA framework has some serious drawbacks. First, it does not take the
expectations of the researchers fully into account. For example, researchers may expect that a new
treatment will work better than an old treatment, or that one task is much more difficult than
another, but ANOVA will ignore these ...
Development and application of statistical methodology for analysis of the phenomenon of multi-drug resistance in the EU: demonstration of analytical approaches using antimicrobial resistance isolate-based data. Hasselt University
Statistical analysis of real time PCR data Ghent University
Current methdology for the analysis of real time PCR data is incapable to cope with the problems of inhibition and uncertaintiy in the field of GMO detection (food safety). This project focuses on the amelioration of qPCR data analysis by developing a new model for reaction kinetic and measurement uncertainty.
Preparatory support for the statistical evaluation of the compliance analysis of GM plant field trials Hasselt University
Evaluation and improvement of statistical downscaling methods for climate change impact analysis on hydrological extremes KU Leuven
Year after year the global interest in climate change gains ground in our society. In water management particular attention goes to the impact of climate change on hydrological variables, such as floods, low flows and water scarcity conditions. Climate impact assessments of those hydrological variables can be carried out with urban and river catchment models driven on input data describing future meteorological changes. Based on an estimated ...
Precipitation Estimation from Weather Radar Measurements : Statistical Analysis of Convective Storms and Extreme Rainfall KU Leuven
This thesis aims to improve the measurement, observation and statistical analysis of precipitation which is generally defined as falling aqueous particles. A particular interest is dedicated to rainfall, which is defined as liquid precipitation on the ground. Weather phenomena associated with precipitation impacts human life and economies over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. The study of precipitation in Belgium, which ...
A Statistical Framework for the Spatio-temporal Analysis of Modern Data Types in Epidemiology and Ecology KU Leuven
Statistical methods for estimating age and time-dependent epidemiological malaria parameters and the analysis of social network data as a new approach to the development of malaria elimination strategies Institute of Tropical Medicine
Statistical inference for differential analysis in single cell transcriptomics Ghent University
The field of single cell gene expression analysis (scRNA-seq) is experiencing an unprecedented boom
in popularity. It enables researchers to study genes in individual cells at an unpreceded resolution
and will revolutionise their view on complex biological processes, tissues and disease. The current
technology, for instance, can profile the expression of thousands of genes in up to ten thousand
cells of a sample. This ...