Here are the course project reports by all the brilliant students in the class. They used various advanced methods to analyze a dataset of their choice with application of nonparametric methods
Benjamin Brady
Calahan Mollan
David Piwowarski
Jacob Manis
Jianxia Jiao
Josh DeCoste
Luke Lathrop
Shruthi Venkatesha Murthy
John Kloke and Joseph McKean (2015). Nonparametric Statistical Methods Using R (1st ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.