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Past Undergraduate VIGRE Projects

Here is a sample of projects done by recent undergraduate research interns.

• Discovering Partially Ordered Knowledge Structures (POKS) from Online Tutoring Data

• Computing Symmetric Irrelevance Relationships in “Imprecise” Probability Models

• Change in Firing Rate of Motor Cortical Neurons and its Relationship to Hand Velocity

• Factors that Influence the Impact of Articles in the Field of Psychometrics

• An International Comparison of Mortality Rates by Universal and Non-Universal Health Care Systems

• The Contraceptive Choices of Women in the United States: A Comparison of Sterilization vs. Other Methods

• Factors Associated With the Perception of Obesity and Depression Among Adolescents in the United States

• Preventive Care Services in the United States: A Closer Look

• Haplotype Analysis: PHASE Reconstruction Error Rates

• Predicting the Odds Ratio that Seniors Will Use a Proxy to Respond to the National Long Term Care Survey

• Generalized Asymetric Irrelevance

• Information Flow in a Social Network: Analysis of Enron Email

• Analysis of Computer Failure Data

• Tracking Neuronal Waveforms Over Time

• Humanities and Social Sciences Advising Survey Analysis

• Modeling the Relationship Between Sleep Characteristics and Pediatric Obesity

• Characterizing the Marketplace's Opinion of Stock Market Volatility

• Utah Microelectrode Array Performance During Long Term Cortical Neural Prosthetics

• What Makes Research Papers Popular?

• The Relationship Between Multiple Choice Main Questions and Scaffolding Questions in the Assistments System

• Factors Related to Recovery from Depression: A Reanalysis of the Pittsburgh 600

• Identifying Patients' Lung Defects through Pulmonary Function Testing

• Clustering with a Similarity-Based Density Measure

• Comparison of Normalization Techniques for cDNA Microarrays

• A Comparison of Image Registration Estimation Metrics in fMRI

• Removing Physiological Noise from fMRI

• Image Registration Using Mutual Information

• Adolescents at Risk for Substance Use Disorders

• Assistment Project: Predicting and Improving Math Test Scores

• Assistment Project: An Investigation of Educational Data

• Diabetes and Depression: A Comparison of the National Comorbidity Survey

• A Study of Market Behavior During the Weekend Versus During the Week

• The Hidden Cost of Caregiving: Emotional Stress

• Caregivers, Coping, and Stress: An Analysis of Caregiving in the U.S.

• Who Cares? Results of a National Caregiver Survey

• Factors Related to the Differences in Caregiving for Cancer and Diabetic Patients

• Studying physiological noise that degrades fMRI signals

• Are Students All the Same and How Are They Improving Over Assistment

• Behavior of Skills within MCAS and Assistments

• Improving the Accuracy of the Record Linkage

• Correlates of the Incidence of Human Papilloma Viral Infection in the U.S.

• It’s Not All Black and White! An Analysis on the Prevalence and Treatment of Pediatric and Adolescent Asthma in the U.S.

• Approaching Prostate Cancer: The Role of Poverty, Health, & Race

• Magnetic Fields and the Human Brain

• Quantifying Differentially Expressed Proteins

• Persian Rugs: Automated Isolation of Persian Rug Patterns Based on Voxels’ Position and RGB Color Code

• Community Structure in Networks

• Bootstrapped Confidence Intervals for Quantitative Trait Loci

• Normalization for cDNA Microarray Data

• Internet - Power Law?