Statistics

Rice’s Technology Development Fund backs faculty projects

Nine projects proposed by Rice researchers have been granted seed funding by Creative Ventures' Technology Development Fund.

‘Super trees’ may help save Houston … and beyond

Rice statisticians are part of a study sharing strategies to identify “super trees” for urban areas that help mitigate pollution, flooding and heat.

Audubon project wins D2K Showcase

Students whose computer vision system can classify birds by species and count them from the air won the Data to Knowledge Lab Showcase.

Rice cuts ribbon on Maxfield Hall

Renovation of the historic Mechanical Engineering building, now called Maxfield Hall is complete.

Six Rice-TMC research teams earn seed grants

Rice's Educational and Research Initiatives for Collaborative Health has announced six seed grants for research collaborations between faculty from Rice and the Texas Medical Center.

Students’ model could help avoid costly natural gas compressor shutdowns

A student project to predict the need for maintenance in natural gas compressors and avoid unexpected shutdowns has won this year’s Data to Knowledge Lab Showcase.

Marina Vannucci awarded Zellner Medal

​​​​​​​Marina Vannucci, the Noah Harding Professor of Statistics at Rice, has been awarded the 2020 Zellner Medal from the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA).

Rice webinar showcases big data’s rise in sports and gambling

HOUSTON – (April 23, 2021) – The 9th Eubank Conference on Real World Markets at Rice University is taking a close look at how computational tools and big data are impacting sports and changing fan experiences through gambling.

Sports gambling conference eyes risks, rewards of legalization

Legal sports gambling will be analyzed at the Ninth Eubank Conference on Real World Markets at Rice.

Antibody study suggests COVID-19 infections underestimated

A monthslong study to determine the number of Houstonians carrying COVID-19 antibodies revealed infections may have been four times greater than viral tests showed, according to collaborators at the Houston Health Department, Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine.

People, papers and presentations Dec 14, 2021

Marina Vannucci, the Noah Harding Professor of Statistics, is a co-author on a primer on "Bayesian Statistics and Modeling" that will be published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers.

Top Rice data science team shows heart in plan to save babies

Winning Data to Knowledge Lab project uses data science techniques to help save babies with congenital heart defects.

Rice helps give Houston early COVID-19 warnings

Scientists and statisticians at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering have worked long hours for months to help the city of Houston monitor the spread of COVID-19 through traces of the coronavirus found in wastewater treatment plants.

Harvey's overall impact dwarfs subsequent storms, Texas Flood Registry finds

Hurricane Harvey ravaged the Houston area three years ago, but as another major storm threatens the upper Texas coast, a new report from the Texas Flood Registry shows the 2017 disaster's lasting impact is felt more strongly than that of subsequent storms, including Tropical Storm Imelda.

As Hurricane Laura nears Texas coast, experts available from Rice

HOUSTON — (Aug. 25, 2020) — As Hurricane Laura nears the Texas coast, Rice University has a number of experts that can discuss a wide variety of storm-related topics.