Dr Johan O van Vuuren

Senior Lecturer

University of Stellenbosch

Private Bag X1, Matieland

7602, South Africa

Tel:         +(27) 21 808 3592

Fax:        +(27) 21 808 3830

e-mail:     jovv@sun.ac.za

Obtained a Ph.D in Mathematical Statistics in 1998 at the University of Stellenbosch, with promoter professor Willie Conradie.

Present Teaching Subjects

Statistics for Scientists 212

Mathematical Statistics 244

Advanced regression techniques (Masters)

Present Research Interests

• Regression Analysis / Model Selection / Diagnostics / Econometrics / Experiments

• Research in a Departmental team on the influence of observations on variable selection

Publications in Journals

• 2000. Diagnostics and Plots for Identifying Collinearity-Influential Observations and for Classifying Multivariate Outliers.

• In  preparation: Simultaneous Identification of Influential Subsets and Variable Selection Using Quantabilities.

International Conferences

Societies and Committees

Member of the South African Statistical Association.

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