statistics G6102 project

Project
The project component of this class requires you to identify an interesting statistical application with some specific questions to address. The data analysis should be non-trivial and use some of the things we have been learning about this semester.

I am hoping you will propose your own project, but as a backup plan, here are some ideas...

Sample Project 1 Vaccine study. I can provide data for o vaccine study conducted in 137 macaques. The study vaccinated the animals with different doses of the the vaccine (from the full human dose down to zero). Some of the animals survived a subsequent "challenge" and some did not. The data comprise repeated measurements of aspects of immune system activity over a year or more, plus a survival indicator. The ultimate goal of the project is to build an accurate predictive model of survival based on the immune system measurements. There is also some interest in trying to find interesting clusters in the data.

Sample Project 2 Entity tagging. This project concerns identification of people, locations, and organizations in free text. Take a look either the English or German labelled dataset here. Implement a Bayesian hidden Markov model and assess how well it works.