February 2020 – Edward Mellor

Optimal strategy for ‘Guess Who?’?

March 31, 2020February 26, 2020 by Ed Mellor

As I was growing up, one of my favourite games was Guess Who?. This two player game was originally created by Theora Design but is now owned by Hasbro. Each player is allocated one of 24 possible characters from the table of names below. The players then take turns to ask yes/no questions to guess … Read more

Functional Data: Making height prediction less of a tall order

March 31, 2020February 5, 2020 by Ed Mellor

As part of the second term of STOR-i MRes programme we receive talks on a variety of potential research topics. One such talk, by Dr Juhyun Park from Lancaster University, discussed the use of functional data. In this blog, I will explore one of the examples used in her presentation. At 193cm I am the … Read more