Research
Research in the department is wide ranging, both in terms of areas of application and in terms of focus, from questions closely related to specific types of data to purely theoretical questions of mathematical statistics and probability. Research interests of our faculty lie in the areas:
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Faculty research interests
- Itai Dattner: statistical inference for dynamical systems, deconvolution problems, applications in biostatistics.
- Ori Davidov: order restricted inference, methods and models for ranking and rating, nonparametric methods for multivariate and high dimensional data, case control studies and general statistical methodology.
- David Faraggi: biostatistics, clinical trials, ROC curves, neural networks for survival data.
- Alexander Goldenshluger: nonparametric inference, estimator/model selection, adaptive estimation, inverse problems, machine learning, stochastic optimization.
- Ido Nachum : artificial neural networks, statistical learning, information theory.
- Liron Ravner: applied probability, queueing theory, statistics and game theory.
- Philip Reiss: biostatistics, multivariate analysis, functional data analysis, statistical modeling in neuroimaging.
- Bella Vakulenko-Lagun: causal inference, survival analysis and multi-stage processes, selection bias and missing data.