Subareas within the statistics research field covered at our section include:
- Asymptotic statistics (Alexis Derumigny, Geurt Jongbloed, Rik Lopuhaä, Nestor Parolya, Jakob Söhl, Aad van der Vaart)
- Nonparametric and shape restricted statistics (Geurt Jongbloed, Rik Lopuhaä)
- Causal inference (Aad van der Vaart, Annoesjka Cabo)
- Random matrices (Nestor Parolya)
- Dependence modeling and copulas (Alexis Derumigny)
- Robust multivariate and high-dimensional statistics (Piao Chen, Alexis Derumigny, Rik Lopuhaä, Nestor Parolya, Aad van der Vaart)
- Computational statistics (Joris Bierkens, Geurt Jongbloed)
- (Nonparametric) Bayesian statistics (Joris Bierkens, Piao Chen, Hanne Kekkonen, Jakob Söhl, Aad van der Vaart, Annoesjka Cabo)
- Statistics for stochastic processes (Joris Bierkens, Jakob Söhl, Aad van der Vaart)
- Statistical inverse problems and uncertainty quantification (Piao Chen, Geurt Jongbloed, Hanne Kekkonen, Aad van der Vaart)
- Education statistics (Annoesjka Cabo)
The statistics section is also involved in statistical research in many areas of application. These include
- Quality control and reliability (Piao Chen)
- Finance (Alexis Derumigny, Nestor Parolya, Jakob Söhl)
- Health (Hanne Kekkonen, Geurt Jongbloed, Nestor Parolya, Aad van der Vaart)
- Education (Annoesjka Cabo)
- Meteorology and climate science (Geurt Jongbloed)
- Materials science (Geurt Jongbloed)
- Forensics (Geurt Jongbloed, Jakob Söhl)
