Last updated Feb 11

Possible topics:  See me if you'd like some help
with key references/starting points, or if you
would like help in choosing a different topic.


RUNNING LIST OF POSSIBLE PROJECTS/TOPICS:

Density estimation:
  - bump hunting
  - how to deal with high dimensional data
  - correlated $X_i$'s
  - comparison of methods for choosing bandwidth
  - methods for clustering (??)
  - projection pursuit
  - understanding local likelihood(!)
  - when measurment error is present
  - geyser data ? how to analyze data sets like this

Software to play with (many many choices!):
  - using Steve Marron's sizer software for exploring
    densities and regression functions
    http://www.stat.unc.edu/faculty/marron.html
  - David Scott's averaged histograms (ASH)
    http://www.stat.rice.edu/~scottdw/
  - David Scott's mode tree for density bump hunting
    (kind of like sizer)
    http://www.stat.rice.edu/~scottdw/

Regression function estimation:
  - longitudinal data analysis
  - count data/0-1 data
  - correlated errors
  - selecting the number of knots for penalized splines
      (Ruppert's recent J Comp and Graph Stats paper)
  - variance estimation for heteroscedastic data

Functional Data Analysis: