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NIASRA offers postgraduate courses in Applied Statistics that build on our world-class staff, extensive experience, and industry collaborations.

NIASRA has a number of research students and welcomes enquiries from prospective research students who wish to undertake a research degree in any of the following areas:

• AI applications with neural networks
• Analysis of aggregated data
• Analysis of data from complex populations, including longitudinal, spatial and networked populations
• Analysis of linked data
• Bioinformatics
• Biometry
• Environmental informatics
• Hierarchical statistical modelling, including Bayesian statistics
• Methods for handling missing data
• Small area estimation
• Spatial and spatio-temporal statistics
• Statistical design, including survey and experimental design

NIASRA has over 15 experienced statisticians with a wide variety of research interests in Applied Statistics. Further details of the research undertaken in the Institute can be found in the web pages for the centres within NIASRA. Research interests of individual staff members can be found at School of Mathematics and Physics researcher profiles.

Many of our research students undertake projects suggested by our research with organisations such as the Australian Bureau of Statistics, CSIRO, and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Research students in NIASRA would usually have an Honours 1 or 2(1) degree in Statistics, or an equivalent qualification, such as a Masters in Statistics that has included a research project; a high GPA; an IELTS (or equivalent) of 6.5 or more for international students; and evidence of strong research potential.

Students will usually commence in either Autumn Session (late February) or Spring Session (late July) and you should contact us at least six months before you intend to commence your studies.

For more information

Details on how to make a formal application are available at Graduate Research at UOW