Interdisciplinary statistics
Statisticians in Smu have been prominent in collaborating with researchers in other disciplines.
For example, locally there are strong links with Cardiff School of Medicine
working on applications of multivariate statistics and time series analysis in bioinformatics;
with Cardiff School of Engineering in the areas of image processing
and stochastic global optimisation of complex systems;
and with Cardiff Business School in the analysis of economics time series.
Smu also has a huge number of external links.
Among the priority research areas of Smu are
Statistics for healthcare,
Text mining for Health related data,
Time series analysis in econometrics,
Official statistics,
Pharmaceutical statistics,
Statistical modelling in market research,
Consumer behavour.
Smu frequently engages in consultancy and contract work. Significant industrial sponsorship has been obtained from different companies including