Information for Prospective Research Students

The centre has number of research students and welcomes enquiries from prospective research students who wish to undertake a research degree in any of the following areas:

• statistical design, including survey and experimental design;
• analysis of data from complex populations, including survey, longitudinal, spatial and aggregated data;
• statistical modelling, including semi-parametric and nonparametric methods, time series, quasi-likelihood, multi-level modelling, and estimating equations;
• data quality and survey methods;
• small area estimation;
• analysis of linked data;
• statistics on the interface with computer science, including graphical models, variational approximations and kernel machines;
• statistical methodology for analysing flow cytometry data;
• statistical education;
• statistical confidentiality.

In the first instance you should contact anica@uow.edu.au.

Research students in the Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology would usually have an Honours 1 or 2(1) degree in Statistics, or an equivalent qualification, such as a Masters in Statistics with a very high grade point average and strong research potential. For some topics in survey methods an Honours or Masters degree in another discipline combined with relevant professional experience may be acceptable.

Students will usually commence in either Autumn Session (late February) or Spring Session (late July) and should contact us several months before you intend to commence your studies.

Details on how to make a formal application are available at www.uow.edu.au/prospective/postgrad/index.html

Details of current research students are given at cssm.uow.edu.au/people.html