HSE University-St Petersburg held the 3rd International Academic Conference ‘Army, Elites, and Society in the Middle East and North Africa’. The event brought together researchers from Russia, Oman, Belarus, Uzbekistan, and several other countries.
Why do statistical methods sometimes yield unexpected results? How does the creative approach help to process data in complex linguistic research? Is there 'a magic button' to analyse the results? The answers to these and other questions were the topic of the three-day autumn school 'Statistics in Psycho- and Neurolinguistics.'
Yury Burchanov, student of the master's programme 'Finance', studies credit risk modeling in modern financial markets. He presented his research at the Royal Statistical Society International Conference.