Requirement of Report:

Select a specific statistical learning technique and a specific research problem in biomedical research. At least two data sets and two simulation examples of their creation should be included for the application of statistical methods in the project.  Write a report of at least 5,000 words.

For the chosen statistical learning technique, the report should include discussion of the technique, the current literatures on this technique, an analysis of the strengths and weakness of this technique, and ways to improve or extend the technique. For the chosen biomedical research problem, the report should include introduction of existing statistical methods having been applied to this problem, discussion of the limitations of those methods, the proposed statistical method to this problem, comparison of the proposed statistical method with other existing methods, discussion of future extensions to the research problem.

Requirement of two presentation PowerPoint:

Project topic introduction presentation:

Include research topic background, existing literature review on this topic, research plan.

Final project presentation:

Include research topic description, discussion of the limitations of existing studies on this topic, proposed methods and implementations, real data analysis and findings, discussion of future extensions to the research problem.