Undergraduate Statistician Presentations to the RSS Edinburgh Local Group

Date: Tuesday 31 March 2026, 6.00PM
Location: The Bayes Centre
Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT
Local Group Meeting


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An opportunity for undergraduate students from the Schools of Mathematics to present their final year projects.
 
At the second event of the RSS Edinburgh Local Group 2025 programme, two undergraduates from the Schools of Mathematics, who have been working on statistics related dissertation projects, will have the opportunity to present to the local group. The session will last an hour, with high level presentations taking 20 minutes (with questions) each and some time afterwards to discuss.

Speakers and talk topics:
Yijia Yang (School of Mathematics) - Visualizing Edinburgh’s Fringe for festivalgoers: Shiny web application study
Guanyu Chen (School of Mathematics) - Exploiting clustering with vine copulas to examine the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020

Venue: The Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT
 
Yijia Yang (School of Mathematics) - Visualizing Edinburgh’s Fringe for festivalgoers: Shiny web application study
Guanyu Chen (School of Mathematics) - Exploiting clustering with vine copulas to examine the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020
 
Contact Chris Oldnall, Edinburgh Local Group Secretary