Chan Kin Yee
  Department of Statistics and Applied Probability
  National University of Singapore
    
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Assistant Professor  
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability
National University of Singapore
Faculty of Science
Block S16, Level 7
6 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543
Republic of Singapore
Office: S16-07-112
Phone: (65) 6874-8473
Fax: (65) 6872-3919
Email: kinyee@stat.nus.edu.sg

 

 

Education:

B.Soc.Sci. (Hons) National University of Singapore, 1994
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000 (Advisor: Professor Wei-Yin Loh)

Appointments:

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Nov 1994 - Aug 2000:  Senior Tutor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, 
                                 National University of Singapore, Singapore.

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May 2002 - Jul 2002:  Honorary Fellow, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
                                Wisconsin, USA.

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Aug 2000 - Present:  Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, 
                               National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Awards/Honors:

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NUS Excellent Teachers Award (University Level)
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2002/2003

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2003/2004

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Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Science, NUS (Faculty Level)
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2002/2003

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2003/2004

 

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Lecturing Assignments:

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2000/2001 
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Semester 2        ST2131/MA2216   Probability

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2001/2002 
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Semester 1        ST2131/MA2216   Probability

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Semester 2        ST4236    Multivariate Statistical Analysis

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2002/2003 
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Semester 1        ST2334    Probability and Statistics

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Semester 2        ST2334    Probability and Statistics

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2003/2004 
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Semester 1        ST2334    Probability and Statistics

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Semester 2        ST4236    Multivariate Statistical Analysis

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2004/2005 
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Semester 1        ST3240    Multivariate Statistical Analysis

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Semester 2        ST2131/MA2216   Probability

  

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Research Interests:

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Tree-structured classification and regression methods

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Categorical data analysis

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Multivariate analysis

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Goodness-of-fit tests for binary data

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Data mining techniques

Publications:

bullet K.-Y. Chan and T.-C. Chua (2003),  "A Note on Hypothesis Testing for Discrete Cases," International 
Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
, 34(1): 111-115.
bullet K.-Y. Chan and W.-Y. Loh (2004), "LOTUS: An algorithm for building accurate and comprehensible 
logistic regression trees
," Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 13(4): 826-852.

Software:

bullet LOTUS logistic regression tree homepage (version 2.3)

Conference Presentations:

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C. Warren Neel Conference on Statistical Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery, June 22-25, 2002, 
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. 

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The 2002 Annual Meeting of the Classification Society of North America, June 13-16, 2002, Madison,
Wisconsin, USA

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The Fifth ICSA International Conference, August 17-19, 2001, Hong Kong, China.

  

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Useful Links:

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Journal Articles
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JStor Journal Browser

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NUS Library Ejournal (Statistics and Probability)

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NUS Databases (Indexes and Abstracts)

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MathSciNet

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Technical Reports

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Computing
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Fortran Links

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Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)

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Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)

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Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview

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MiKTeX

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EditPlus Text Editor

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Web Shopping

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Miscellaneous
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Google

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Oxford English Dictionary Online

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Data Archives

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NUS Library Homepage

 

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Last modified: September 29, 2005 by Chan Kin Yee