STAT 157 (2016) : Schedule of student reading/talk projects
I've done minor edits to some titles, for clarity. You can change topics if you
wish, but keep the same time slot.
Look at the reading projects paragraph
on this page.
In particular you have a 6 minute slot, allowing time to
change speakers.
If you have a handout, email to me the day before your talk, and I will make copies.
Wednesday 10 February
- 4.10 - 4.16. Xiaochen Yang: "A Random Walk Down Wall Street".
- 4.17 - 4.23. Christopher Liu: Statlantic City: probability and statistics behind Monopoly.
- 4.24 - 4.30. Dong Kyun Kim: Counting cards in blackjack.
- 4.31 - 4.37. Zhenyang Zhang: Massey's rating method.
- 4.38 - 4.44. Kent Chen: Basketball: when to foul when trailing or leading.
- 4.45 - 4.51. Justin (Hyuntae) Kim: Prediction in swimming.
- 4.52 - 4.58. Leanne Lee: Slot machines and random number generators.
- 4.59 - 5.05. Xinyang Geng: Statistical analysis of natural language data.
- 5.06 - 5.12. Tongzhou Wang: Regression, correlation, and prediction.
- 5.13 - 5.19. Shichang Zhang: The exchange paradox.
- 5.20 - 5.26. Rahul Shankar: The Allais paradox.
Wednesday 17 February
- 4.10 - 4.16. Daniel Saedi: Delivering Alpha: Are institutional investor returns a function of chance, skill or both?
- 4.17 - 4.23. Ellen Chan: Testing square root law for MSCI index for large-cap, domestic equities and analyzing the 2008 financial crisis versus now.
- 4.24 - 4.30. Connie Xinyi Zhang: Should you avoid flying airlines that have had past crashes?
- 4.31 - 4.37. Andrew Soncrant: Sports betting: How it works.
- 4.38 - 4.44. Nicholas Hancock: Arbitrage Opportunities in Online Sports Betting.
- 4.45 - 4.51. Canzhi Ye: Applying Elo to the NBA.
- 4.52 - 4.58. Ilsung Lee: Hot hands are real?
- 4.59 - 5.05. Hanying Mo: Optimal times to buy flight tickets.
- 5.06 - 5.12. Qianhui Wan: Why can't we forecast earthquakes?
- 5.13 - 5.19. Chuyue Frances Huang: Using Non-Representative Sample for Election Prediction.
- 5.20 - 5.26. Renjun (Vicky) Zhu: Risky world: social and cultural perspectives on risk.
- 5.27 - 5.33. Weidong Qin: FMRI data in statistics.
Monday 22 February
- 4.10 - 4.16. Shane Barratt: Probability is necessary for Genomics.
- 4.17 - 4.23. Grace Bian: Bayes Rule in Real Life.
- 4.24 - 4.30. Hanquan Yang:
The mystery behind slot machine - RNG.
- 4.31 - 4.37. Grace Deng: Pascal's wager.
- 4.38 - 4.44. Jin Cho: The Monty Hall problem.
- 4.45 - 4.51. Pui Fung Lam: Miracles -- statistically impossible events or rare phenomena.
- 4.52 - 4.58. Kingsley Xuan: Personnel and equipment configuration in the circulation desk of a library.
- 4.59 - 5.05. Chenyan Zhu: What is Your Life Expectancy?
- 5.06 - 5.12. Albert Lee: Simple Idea to Finance Biomedical Research that can save millions of lives.
- 5.13 - 5.19. Shashank Bhargava: Fourth Down Decisions: Analyzing Value of Kicking and Punting in Football.
- 5.27 - 5.33. Nadav Tadelis:
Correcting for Clustered Standard Errors: Why and How.
- 5.34 - 5.40. Ling Yang:
Fun Texas Poker Facts.
[Later]
- Sukhyun Park: Prisoner's dilemma.
- Anshuman Dewangan: Probability in card shuffling.