Projects of Centre for Statistics

Recent projects

Project agreements for Research

Identification of determinants of antibiotic use and improvement of prescribing behavior using innovative statistical approaches  (R-9306)

FWO travel credit for a long stay abroad at the Ithaca College 17/08/2018-16/02/2019 and Princeton University 17/02/2019-16/08/2019.  (R-9271)

Predicting the impact of targeted prevention strategies for HIV in men-having-sex-with-men (MSM) and sub-Saharan African migrants (SAM)  (R-9228)

Development and application of spatio-temporal models for estimation of prevalence of infectious diseases in Western and Southern Africa  (R-8991)

ECODIS: Effects of co-infections on the emergence of an avian disease Mycoplasma gallisepticum.  (R-8902)

Co-financement Dieter Heylen at Marie-Curie financement 'ECODIS'  (R-8841)

Challenges in mass spectrometry: computational lipidomics and MS imaging  (R-8547)

Effectiveness of management agreements for field and meadow birds (breeding ground, food and breeding success)  (R-8699)

Building an evidence base to support and enhance community health workers' (informal) use of mobile phones in Ghana, Malawi and Ethiopia  (R-8708)

SpiL : Spillover of Leptospira in island populations of the Channel Island fox.  (R-7059)

Bayesian methods for the inclusion of historical data in Phase I and Phase II clinical studies  (R-8141)

Experimental analysis of temperature effects on intraspecific biodiversity dynamics  (R-8179)

Statistical methods to estimate infectious disease parameters and individual heterogeneity using multivariate serological data  (R-8133)

The development and application of flexible multivariate models for current status data and count data with applications to HIV serodiscordance among couples and abortion, perinatal and infant mortality in Mozambique.  (R-8134)

A universal search engine for mass spectrometry-based sequential elucidation  (R-8830)

Estimation in large-scale heterogeneous and heteroscedastic quantile regression  (R-7534)

New translational methods towards the estimation of age- and timedependent epidemiological parameters for pertussis resurgence in Belgium using serial seroprevalence and incidence data  (R-7543)

Hepatitis C virus direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment success and its impact on transmission dynamics in HIV/HCV co-infected MSM  (R-7861)

Flanders Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Sustainable Agriculture and better Health Society  (R-8371)

Subcontract with VITO within the framework of the Consortium Environmental Health  (R-7839)

A statistical framework to correct for preferential sampling in biodiversity studies  (R-7246)

Translational and Transdisciplinary research in Modelling Infectious Diseases  (R-7341)

BOF project financing in the context of TransMID  (R-6971)

Centre for Environment and Health  (R-7013)

IOF mandate Sarah Vercruysse  (R-5596)

Encompassing flexible mean and quantile regression  (R-5914)

Preparatory support for the statistical evaluation of the comparative assessment of GM plant field trials and for the evaluation of toxicological studies for GM plant food/feed safety. Lot 1: Comparative statistical analysis.  (R-5801)

Statistical inference for varying coefficient functions and qualitative constraints  (R-5210)

Network Statistics for Sexually Transmitted Infections Epidemiology  (R-5232)

Project agreements for Education

A Cuban-Flemish Training and Research Program in Data Science and Big Data Analysis  (R-9309)

Capacity building network in biostatistics for public health innovation in Kenya  (R-7117)

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Project agreements for Research

2018

Effects of co-infections on the emergence of an avian disease Mycoplasma gallisepticum (acronym: ECODIS)  (R-9046)

2017

Francqui chair of Peter J. Diggle  (R-8403)

The statistical analysis of infectious disease data.  (R-8140)

Technical support for processing winter counts of birds on bird feed plots in Harpengouw.  (R-8278)

FWO travel grant for a short stay abroad for the 9e Annual Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) during 17-21/07/2017 at Seattle USA  (R-7996)

Modelling the impact of combining HIV prevention interventions on HIV incidence in fishing communities in Uganda  (R-7414)

Machine Learning models for integration of gene exptression and methylation profiles with applications to cancer data  (R-7848)

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING DATA  (R-7699)

2016

Statistical inference in varying coefficient models with censored data  (R-7256)

Assistance to the Assessment and Methodological support Unit for the provision of services to EFSA on the use of machine learning techniques for literature reviews and systematic reviews in EFSA.  (R-7363)

Performing a cross-sectional study in Genk-Zuid  (R-7362)

Enhancing observational study design of infectious disease surveys using mathematical modelling techniques.  (R-6527)

Quantifying the impact of school holidays and week-ends on the spread of influenza-like-illness: a multi-scale approach  (R-6638)

Simulation modelling using phylogenetic, epidemiological and demographic data to inform proactive control strategies for HIV-1 and hepatitis C virus outbreaks among vulnerable populations in Quebec and Belgium.  (R-7033)

2015

The analysis of RNA-Seq data by using generalized linear models with normal and conjugate random effects  (R-6244)

Combining phylodynamics and agent-based HIV transmission modelling to advance epidemiological methodology and evidencebased public health policies for HIV prevention and treatment  (R-6401)

2014

Development and application of statistical methodology for analysis of the phenomenon of multi-drug resistance in the EU: demonstration of analytical approaches using antimicrobial resistance isolate-based data.  (R-5802)

Differential splicing detection in early drug developments experiments.  (R-5464)

Development of new semi-parametric mixture models for interval censored data: mathematical properties, performance for finite samples, comparison of different approaches, with applications in antimicrobial resistance  (R-5520)

Statistical inference in varying coefficient models with censored data  (R-5529)

Logistic Models: separation issues and possible solutions  (R-5474)

Modeling the infectious agent transmission with social mixing data  (R-5043)

Statistical methodology for epidemiological and clinical research in childhood and maternal health in the context of mother to child transmission of HIV and other infectious diseases  (R-5044)

Advanced development, testing and application of the Simpact Cyan infividual-base simulation tool to model preferential mixing among ART patients and heritability of HIV set point viral load.  (R-5556)

Project agreements for Education

2016

International course "Master of Science in Biostatistics"  (R-7134)

Crosscutting project with countries in Africa and South-America: " Statistics for development"  (R-6990)

2015

International course "Master of Science in Biostatistics"  (R-6282)

2014

International course "Master of Science in Biostatistics"  (R-5442)

Capacity Build up Statistics in Africa and Latin America  (R-5418)