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Outbreak of an infectious disease? Mathematics helps in making quick, informed decisions 15 October 2024A job thanks to COVID—something not many people can claim. But PhD candidate Vera Arntzen can. Over the past four years, she has mapped two crucial ch...
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New e-value even more flexible: significance level adjustable at a later stage 23 September 2024Recently, a paper by Peter Grünwald was published in the prestigious scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Grünwald is f...
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KiKa grant for mathematician: how statistics helps fight bone cancer 12 July 2024Using mathematics to help children with bone cancer. It sounds a little strange, but for statistician Marta Fiocco, it's just her job. She gets a subs...
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Peter Grünwald develops a revolutionary statistical theory with an ERC Advanced Grant 11 April 2024Using mathematics to determine whether scientific results are significant or not. Peter Grünwald, full professor of Statistical Learning at the Mathem...
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Dutch Cancer Society allocates funds to a mathematician: for treating Ewing sarcoma with the help of an app 26 January 2024If doctors could better estimate a patient's chances of survival, this would help in choosing a specific treatment. It would be particularly beneficia...
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Italian nurse acquitted of murder after statistical analysis 25 April 2022Italian nurse Daniela Poggiali was arrested and convicted of murdering two hospital patients in 2014. Her case attracted the attention of Leiden stati...
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Statistics for the benefit of the patient 17 June 2021Marta Fiocco has been appointed as of 1 April as professor of applied mathematics, in particular medical statistics. Fiocco's appointment is at the Fa...
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Anja Rüten-Budde wins the C.J. Kok Jury Award for best thesis 16 February 2021Statistician Anja Rüten-Budde has won the C.J. Kok Jury Award 2020. Her PhD thesis resulted in an app which helps patients with soft tissue sarcoma an...
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Open letter is successful: The Lancet withdraws controversial Covid-19 publication 05 June 2020The leading medical journal The Lancet has withdrawn a controversial publication on the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. The reason for this is t...
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Hardly an audience and a remote committee: receiving a PhD in times of corona 19 March 2020Almost all PhD defences at Leiden University have been postponed due to the corona virus, but statistician Sanne Willems is going through with hers. I...
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Dynamic personalised sarcoma care: implementation of a mathematical prediction app in the clinic 22 January 2020A new app provides dynamic predictions of survival for patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma. It was developed by the mathematical Institute res...
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Measuring sulfur with satellites 15 January 2020Seagoing vessels may emit fewer and fewer harmful substances, but how do you measure whether they comply with the standards? The Dutch Environment and...
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Jacqueline Meulman receives the 2020 Psychometric Society Career Award for Lifetime Achievement 10 January 2020Recognition for an unprecedented career of more than forty years: Professor of Applied Statistics Jacqueline Meulman of the Mathematical Institute rec...
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Statistical ‘rockstar’ Brad Efron opens Leiden statistics centre 19 June 2019He is said to be one of the greatest living statisticians. Bradley Efron gave a lecture in Marekerk and opened LUXs, the Leiden University Center for ...
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Statistician Aad van der Vaart Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion 17 June 2019During a symposium in honour of his 60th birthday, statistician Aad van der Vaart received the royal award of Knight in the Order of the Lion of the N...