STAT 157 (2011): list of student course projects

Tuesday 11/22

• WAN,ALBERT CALVIN When is the best time to buy an airline ticket? The Bing airfare predictor.
• MUGISHA, JEAN FABIUS: Earthquake probability in the Bay Area.
• SAUNDERS, JAMES PATRICK III: Hotelling's Positioning Game and Democratic Political Institutions
• LATH, PUNEET and MACHADO, ANTONIO: Breaking the BCS rankings.

Tuesday 11/29

• HUNG, KA WA and CHAN, HONG NAM: Predicting soccer results.
• OBLEA, ERIKA KIRSTIE: Evaluating the Accuracy of Public Opinion Polls with California Propositions.
• XIN,TIM CHENG: Random-walk model for per-possession outcomes of NBA games.
• RYU,SOO-BIN: Examination of US Gas Prices: Deciding when to Put Gas.

Thursday 12/1

• DHAR, AMRIT: Predicting success for wide receivers in the NFL draft.
• HWANG,YOO-SEON: The statistical relationship between generosity and wealth.
• WONG, ANGELA: How representative are juries?
• SCHAFFER, JOSHUA: Stratification and Trends in the MLB Draft.
• LI, ZHAOFENG and CHEN, YI WEN: Accidents and Fatalities by Flight

Tuesday 12/6

• MOACANIN, MAX JOVAN: Analysis of the Effectiveness of PageRank in Ranking Sports Teams.
• AU-YEUNG, CHEUK NAM (Benson) and TSAI, CHENG-FU: Application of Queuing Model---Waiting time in DMV
• LIU, SANDY KATHLEEN and CHUNG, SANG HOON: Predicting Stock Prices from Twitter
• LIANG,ALICE YING: Conditional weather probabilities: knowing today what happens tomorrow.
• YANG, QINXIN (Christina) and ZHANG, MENGYUN (Amy); Crime and Insurance rates.
• THOMAS, CONNER REGAN: Home Field Advantage and Betting on the NFL.
• NI, ZHENG and LIU, LI (Angela): Analysis of freeway traffic.

Thursday 12/8

• BONG, STEVEN RILEY: Using NVIDIA-CUDA architecture to price stock options.
• CHEN, YIFU: Boom or Bust: Drafting Stars in the NFL
• DAI, YAN and DONG, WENJUN and ZHANG, WANYUE: Insurance Probability: Comparison and Analysis of Consumer Psychology and Pricing Strategy in U.S. and China.
• LEE, IN HYE: External factors affecting box office success.
• NGUYEN, CHELSEA TUYET-NHUNG: The probability of getting an uncommon childhood disease.
• DAO, CECILIA: Asteroid Collisions with Earth: Literature Review on Methods for Estimating Impact Probabilities.