Dr hab. Łukasz Smaga alongside his team from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and research partners from Germany will seek new ways for powerful statistical inference. Over 500,000 zlotys will be allocated to the Polish part of the project.
The project Powerful inference for functional data in complex factorial designs is the first one recommended for funding under the 2025 Call. It will be carried out in collaboration with researchers from the TU Dortmund University headed by Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly. The project was evaluated by the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the evaluation results were approved by the National Science Centre under the Weave collaboration.
The researchers aim not only to develop methods for the analysis of functional data, focusing on statistical tests and confidence regions, but also to prepare guidelines for applying these methods to biostatistical problems. This comprehensive approach aims to bridge the gap between advanced statistical theory and real-world applications. It represents a significant step forward in the field of functional data analysis, which has recently become a significant tool in statistics. Functional data analysis is especially effective when data are densely sample, for example, in medicine, when patients wear a device that automatically measures blood pressure and heart rate at regular intervals over a 24-hour period. The resulting output is a set of trajectories of these variables, which can be modelled as functional data. The project results will be integrated with practical statistical tools in the form of efficient software that will find application in real research problems, in particular in medicine. Example applications include the analysis of biomedical and biostatistical data.
Weave-UNISONO and Lead Agency Procedure
The Weave-UNISONO call builds on the multilateral international cooperation between the research funding agencies associated in Science Europe and aims at simplifying the submission and selection procedures in all academic disciplines, involving researchers from two or three European countries.
The selection process is based on the Lead Agency Procedure (LAP), under which only one partner institution performs a merit-based evaluation and the others simply accept the result.
Under Weave, partner research teams apply in parallel to the lead agency and their respective domestic institutions participating in the call. Their joint proposal must include coherent research plans and clearly spell out the added value of international cooperation.
The Weave-UNISONO call accepts proposals on a rolling basis. Polish teams wishing to partner up with colleagues from Austria, Czechia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium-Flanders are encouraged to carefully read the call text and submit their funding proposals.