STAT 157 (2006): list of student course projects

Jonathan Lee: NCAA final four: predictable or random?

Andrew Park: The 2006 NCAA basketball tournament: predictions, results and statistical factors.

Dennis Moy: Luck in major league baseball playoffs.

Gloria Wu and Lei Zhang: Predicting NBA basketball results.

Tommy Lu and Angela Zhang: Strategies in fantasy NBA basketball.

Ming Wu: Randomness within soccer games.

Sonah Kang: Risk - cancer.

Jennifer Cheng and Wing Tam: Risk of infant mortality.

Jason Yim: Asteroids: risk in perspective.

Tammy Lee: Simulation of artificial ant networks.

Omar Jabri and Kent Wong: Self-organized criticality: simulation and application.

Itamar Landau. The evolution of cooperation:the spatial public goods game.

J. Chris Campbell: Adaptive strategies for the Swedish Lottery game.

Rosanna Li: The psychology of luck.

Jennifer Huang and Christine Lin and Michael Tsang: A "finding money" experiment.

Rose Cendak and Rebecca Graff: Risk aversion in games of chance.

Timothy Wu: Monte Carlo simulation in option pricing and risk management.

Chris Chow and Kevin Li: Predicting the S&P 500.

Jiho Han: Time-variant CAPM: learning about factor loading.

Nicholas Gowdy: Beliefs, actions and philosophy: an examination of philosophy through statistics.

Ricky Sun: Risk modelling and decision making trees.

Fayd Shelley: Collaboration graphs.

Arpine Paltajian: Can you mix business cards by shaking a box?

Bao Nguyen and Alex Young: Predicting box office receipts.

Ivy Lin: Does astrology work?

Anastasiya Denisova and Denis Lankin: Life in the Universe.