The Department of Statistics’ Shiny App team was successful in the 2021 Undergraduate Research Poster Exhibition hosted this fall by the Eberly College of Science.
Under the guidance of Dennis Pearl and Neil Hatfield in the BOAST program, undergraduate students Shravani Samala, Lydia Bednarczyk, Tina Tu, Jiayue He, Yudan Zhang, and Adam Poleski — were awarded second place in the mathematical sciences category.
Known at the competition as the R Shiny Research Group, the students presented their winning work from the summer, including apps exploring counting techniques, maximum likelihood estimation, probability applications, and chi-square goodness-of-fit testing.
