Presentation of the 21th Student Contest on Applied Statistics (UAB-Idescat)

The ceremony for presenting the awards of the 21th Student Contest on Applied Statistics, was held on the 20 October, framed within the Statistics Day of Catalonia. This competition that is organised annually by the Applied Statistics Service at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with the collaboration of the Statistical Institute of Catalonia and which is designed to foster interest and research spirit in the field of statistics at universities in the state of Spain.

Idescat prize for the best master work was for the work titled Interactive modelling and prognosis of a COVID-19 hospitalized patient via multistate models; the SEA-Anna Espinal prize for the best degree work was for the work titled Mètodes d’aprenentatge estadístic per a l’anàlisi de l’opinió pública, and the Almirall prize at the best work in biostatistics was for the work titled Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in Catalonia.