The Dissertation

Following successful completion of the taught courses, MSc students conduct an original piece of research with subsequent submission of a dissertation of 50 pages maximum, based on empirical work undertaken in an area of applied statistics.

Examples of past dissertations are:

• Copycat killings – relationship of child homicide and media reporting
• Child and family determinants of self-reported quality of life in children with cerebral palsy
• Analysis of breast cancer risk for women in the North West
• Statistical approaches to the investigation of an infectious disease outbreak
• The analysis of ordinal data in the social sciences: a comparison of approaches to missing data
• Statistical Modelling of employment status of immigrants to Australia
• Business practices and behavioural attributes that drive corporate reputation
• Forecasting volatility in financial markets using ARCH models
• Modelling the outcomes of English language test performances

Students who do not complete the MSc programme may be eligible for an alternative qualification. Students who receive 120 credits from the taught courses will be eligible for the Postgraduate Diploma in Quantitative Methods.

Students who receive 60 credits from certain combinations of taught courses will be eligible for the Postgraduate Certificate in Quantitative Methods.

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