This $149,989 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support research to develop statistical models and inference methods for analyzing random point processes. The research will provide tools for analyzing time series of point process data, with applications in fields such as national security, economics, neuroscience, and geosciences. Key activities include developing parameter estimation procedures,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $149,947 to the University of Houston System to conduct collaborative research on accounting for geolocation errors in spatial point pattern analysis for social science data. The research aims to develop statistical methods to better address location inaccuracies in event data sets used to study phenomena like crime, protests, and terrorism. The team will...
This $131,615 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences, under the CFDA program 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, aims to develop novel Bayesian statistical models for analyzing complex high-dimensional health data. The research will focus on creating improved joint models that can leverage information from longitudinal measurements, such as clinical data and biomarkers, to better predict time-to-event outcomes like disease...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to The University Corporation, a non-profit organization located in Northridge, CA. The grant, funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), focuses on developing new statistical modeling and data resampling methods to address challenges posed by incomplete, missing, and fragmented observations in large datasets. Key objectives include: Advancing...
This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, totaling $359,940, will support the development of new statistical models and algorithms for analyzing large, spatially-dependent data sets collected from complex domains with irregular boundaries. Specifically, the awardee, Texas A&M University, will introduce a class of nonstationary models that can flexibly characterize potentially heterogeneous spatial dependence while...
This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports the development of innovative statistical and mathematical methods for time series data analysis. The key objectives of this 2-year project are: a) Developing a variable selection method to identify significant exogenous covariates in autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH) models. b) Designing a novel nonparametric hypothesis test to...
This $133,182 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of new point-process algorithms for modeling infectious disease threats over varying temporal and spatial scales. Specifically, the funding will be used to derive expectation maximization algorithms to infer probabilistic transmission networks for contact tracing and outbreak source detection. Multivariate Hawkes processes will be formulated to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) provides $199,708 to Carleton College to develop new statistical methodology for analyzing complex spatial data. The key products and services to be delivered include: Methods to account for spatial uncertainty in datasets, including those with privacy constraints or geocoding errors. This will involve developing software to implement a constrained spatial...
This $299,999 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds research into distance-based statistical methods for analyzing complex, high-dimensional data. The Washington University is the primary awardee, with work conducted from Oct. 2021 through Jun. 2024. The University of Pennsylvania serves as a subawardee, contributing to study design, implementation, analysis and manuscripts through the work of Dr. Bhaswar B....
This $289,999 National Science Foundation project grant, awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund the development of improved statistical methods, algorithms, and theory for estimation and inference with high-dimensional data at Rutgers, The State University from July 2022 through June 2025. Key products include new statistical methods for regularized estimation, de-biased statistical inference including confidence intervals and regions, and empirical...