Projects of Centre for Statistics

Recent projects

Project agreements for Research

BOF 2021 incentive funding for "MiMMic: Mass-spectrometry in Metabolomics research on Microbiome."  (R-11952)

Modeling approaches for benchmark dose  (R-11834)

Cooperation agreement between Hasselt University and VITO concerning the PhD of Alejandro Correa Rojo: "Xomics data analysis and integration in precision health"  (R-11724)

Future proof pathology for predictive medicine and disease prognosis based on tumor heterogeneity.  (R-11405)

ADMIRE: Association, causality and biomarker Discovery in translational MIcrobiome REsearch.  (R-11406)

DESCARTES - infectious DisEaSe eConomics and Ai with guaRanTEeS  (R-11433)

Diamond for chip-based quantum sensing in multi-electrode bioelectrical recordings in human iPSC-derived neurons and axonal networks.  (R-11434)

Probability of Improved Prediction: a new concept in statistical inference  (R-11615)

Cross-omics data analyses and integration in precision health.  (R-11733)

Real-time geospatial control of emerging infectious diseases  (R-10967)

Statistical methods for estimation of protein abundance based on peptide-centric mass-spectrometry data.  (R-11125)

: Development of an evidence based proof of concept care path for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver disease in Flanders.  (R-11217)

The more you tell me how and why to avoid spreading COVID-19, the more I feel I can spare myself the trouble. Enhancing compliance with measures against COVID-19 by counteracting side-effects of appeals for preventive behaviour.  (R-11337)

Policy support for managing the COVID pandemic through artificial intelligence  (R-11451)

Balancing socio-economic and public health impact of COVID-19 for its sustainable control and mitigation (SOPHIA)  (R-11859)

Nonparametric estimation of time-varying association measures for bivariate censored time-to-event data  (R-10786)

High Dimensional Clustering and prediction and integrated analysis of single Cell RNAseq Data  (R-11906)

DSI COVID-19 team  (R-10889)

Epidemic intelligence to minimize 2019-nCOV's public health, economic and social impact in Europe "EpiPose"  (R-10827)

An information theoretic approach for the evaluation of correlates of protection in a vaccine setting.  (R-10572)

PRIBE: Personalised Reference Intervals for integrated Biomarkers through nEw statistical methods and unique longitudinal data  (R-10225)

ERC POC project: DEFOG: Data science tool for epidemic forecasting  (R-10150)

Personalised Reference Intervals for integrated Biomarkers through nEw statistical methods and unique longitudinal data'.  (R-10165)

DYNAMICS OF HEPATITIS E VIRUS INFECTION IN BELGIAN PIG FARMS  (R-10087)

IOF mandate Sarah Vercruysse and Emiliano Mancini  (R-9959)

ELIXIR Infrastructure for Data and Services to strengthen Life-Sciences Research in Flanders  (R-10160)

Explainable machine learning, predictive modelling, and causal inference, applied to medical data  (R-10168)

Computational methods for high-resolution mass spectrometry data and massive parallel sequencing  (R-9605)

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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

Structural funding institutions: structural funding for the operation of the Institute CENSTAT / DATA SCIENCE  (R-4269)

Project agreements for Education

Platform Development for an E-learning system in Biostatistics/Statistics  (R-10276)

Directed Breeding Programs for Inproved Poultry Livestock by Genetic Bioinformatics Research and Development in Kenya (BIRD)  (R-10761)

Educating Experts of the Future: Developing Bioinformatics and Biostatistics competencies of European Biomedical Students - Becoming  (R-10739)

not available  (R-9793)

Statistics for development in Indonesia  (R-9600)

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

Statistics for development  (R-9371)

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Project agreements for Research

2020

RESTORE: REalistic forecaSTing, cOntrol and pREparedness for coming COVID-19 waves  (R-10896)

Testing & optimising a mobile app in Belgium for the prevention and management of COVID-19 infections  (R-10897)

A framework for repetitive large-scale citizen science surveys to inform health policy quickly during different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic  (R-10898)

Effects of co-infections on the emergence of an avian disease Mycoplasma gallisepticum (acronym: ECODIS)  (R-10689)

2019

Research into the effect of resilience in the perinatal period (EF 56)  (R-10180)

Short term changes in "Radiomic" features predict long-term treatment effectiveness  (R-10209)

Development of a method for threat analysis in the context of the risk of emergence or re-emergence of infectious animal diseases  (R-9391)

2018

Preparatory support for the statistical evaluation of the compliance analysis of GM plant field trials  (R-9346)

Dose-respons models for genotoxicity markers, human biomonitoring  (R-9548)

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)

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

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

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

2017

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

2016

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)

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)

Project agreements for Education

2016

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

Online Proctoring for Remote Examination  (R-9359)