Meet Viet Hoang Quoc – Statistics Summer Scholarship recipient

This summer, we have a number of fantastic students who received a Department of Statistics scholarship to work on fascinating projects with our staff members. We’ll be profiling them here on Stats Chat and we’d love to hear your feedback on their projects!

Viet is working with Thomas Yee on a research project entitled ‘Parameter estimation for selected univariate distributions.’

Viet explains:

“I’m working on various theoretical aspects (investigation of different types of distribution, implementation of new mathematical-based theories) and practical sides (data cleaning, issues in LaTeX and Sweave).

“I am digging into the some distribution theory and related properties (half-normal, truncated geometric, nearest neighbour and so on) in order to expand and diversify our current number of well-known distributions (normal, Poisson) …

“I’m also doing some practical work such as using various approaches to clean large data sets (e.g. removing outliers).

“Checking the functionality of VGLM and VGAM packages is also included in my summer research.”

More about Viet:

“I graduated from the Department of Mathematics majoring in Pure Mathematics along with two minors in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Statistics has always been a significant interest simply because of its beautiful connection to multiple areas in life such as finance, economics, computer science and many more. Understanding statistics is also very helpful in daily life.

“I’m looking forward to going camping with friends over the Christmas/New Year period.”