Fox Prof. Awarded $843 Thousand Grant
Fox School of Business’s Dr. Robert T. Krafty has received a grant exceeding $843 thousand awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH). This grant will will go into the research that he will supervise on biomedical time-series data collecting.
The grant applications that Krafty will study pay particular attention to body signals, such as heartbeat electrocardiograms (EKGs) and brain-wave electroencephalogram (EEGs), and how these patterns are associated with different things such as measures of the quality of life or how well someone will respond to treatment.
Krafty, the primary investigator for the grant has two collaborators with whom he will work, Martica Hall, PhD, and Daniel Buysse, MD who are located at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Hall and Buysse are sleep-study researchers responsible for studying older adults who have trouble sleeping.
The data applied to their current research was collected from a previous study at the University of Pittsburgh. The results produced by this grant will be used to create new statistical methods and programs to analyze collected statistical data more efficiently.
The grant will also fully support one graduate student’s PhD education, Krafty said. Fox doctoral students, Scott Bruce and Zeda Li, are majoring in Statistics and have been selected by Krafty to work on the project.
The extensive time-series research Krafty is conducting will be completed by June 30, 2017.
Krafty has also been invited to speak at the NBER/NSF Time Series Conference, the leading international conference for time series data, which attracts top statisticians from around the world.
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