Winners for the Undergraduate Statistics Class Project and Undergraduate Statistics Research Project competitions were recently named and include the following:
Undergraduate Statistics Class Project – Introductory Statistics
- First place: Pranav Guntupalli, Maahin Jain, and Daniel Park for “Move Over Sommelier, Make Way for a Statistician”
- Second place: Eleanor Johnson, Lily Johnson, and Jennifer Wen for “Beezz! Renovation and Change in a Colony Growth”
- Third place: Quentin Funderburg and Sanyukta Mudakannavar for “Assessing Environmental Injustice in Suburban Industrial Sectors: A Case Study of Northwest Indiana and New Jersey”
- Honorable mention: Saketh Vangara, Sai Chundi, William Wells, and Eshaan Sharma for “Assessing Premier League Player Valuation: Are They Worth It?”
Undergraduate Statistics Class Project – Intermediate Statistics
- First place: Duy Nguyen and Minh Nguyen for “Risk Factors for Dense Breast in US Women: Insights from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium”
- Second place: Yildiz Derinkok and Hsi-Er Liu for “Diagnosing Specific Language Impairment in Children”
- Third place: Song Hoang and Nimo Mohamud for “Community Factors on Violent Crime Rates”
- Honorable mention: Ethan John, Andrew Thompson, Abigal Jahn, Josephine Pagano, and Max Hansmann for “Developing a User-Friendly Shiny Application for Visualizing and Comparing United States Crop Data Procured by NASS”
Undergraduate Statistics Research Project
- First place: Abdullah Ibn Kamal and Michala Gradner for “Comparative Analysis of Speaker Diarization Techniques Using Different Clustering Methods on CNN-Based Speaker Segmentation for Enhanced Precision and Recognition”
- Second place: Casey Crary for “Exploring Capture Recapture Methods: From Historical Origins to Modern Applications”
- Third place: Elvin Liu for “A Comparison of Methods of Constructing Population Variance Confidence Intervals”
- Honorable mention: Jack McDermott for “A Tutorial in Generating Synthetic Data to Mitigate Disclosure Risk in Microdata: An Expository Review of Taylor, Zhou, and Rise (2017)”
USPROC features two main competitions: the Undergraduate Statistics Class Project competition, with introductory and intermediate categories, and the Undergraduate Statistics Research Project competition. Students submit class projects, capstone projects, or independent research for a chance to win cash prizes and present their work at the Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference.
Students can submit projects for the next cycle by June 18.
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