Dr Pieta JU van Deventer

Senior Lecturer

University of Stellenbosch

Private Bag X1, Matieland

7602, South Africa

Tel:         +(27) 21 808 3237

Fax:        +(27) 21 808 3830

e-mail:     pjuvd@sun.ac.za

Obtained a Ph.D at the University of Cape Town in the Department of Mathematical Statistics.

Present Teaching Subjects

Multivariate categorical data analysis (Honours)

Engineering Statistics 314

Statistics 342

Advanced Statistics for Engineers 816

Present Research Interests

• Diagnostic procedures in nonlinear regression

• Statistical process control and Reliability

• Saddlepoint approximations

• Meta-analysis in Cochrane Collaboration context

• Statistics in Music

Publications in Journals

• J. Sales, D.C. Deeming, P.J.U. van Deventer, M.B. Martella, J.L. Navarro (2000). Diurnal time-activity budget of adult Greater Rheas (Rhea americana) in a farming environment, Archiv für Geflügelkunde, Band 64, Heft 5.

• P.J. de Jongh, T. de Wet and P.J.U. van Deventer (2004). Saddlepoint approximations for the distribution of regression quantiles, South African Statistical Journal, vol 38, no 1.

• Siegfried N.L., Van Deventer P.J.U., Mahomed F.A., Rutherford G.W. (2006). Stavudine, lamivudine and nevirapine combination therapy for treatment of HIV infection and AIDS in adults (Review). The Cochrane Collaboration 2006, Issue 2, John Wiley &Sons, Ltd in http://www.thecochranelibrary.com

   

   

Research Reports

• Some aspects of Statistical Reliability Models.     Van      Deventer P.J.U and De Wet T. Doc. No. PP0013-960005-730. Maart 1996.

• Some Notations And Results In Reliability. Van Deventer P.J.U. April 1997.

• Statistical Concepts in Geodesy – A Conceptual Summary. Van Deventer P.J.U. IMT: Project SACS C0805. 1999.

• Confidence Intervals For Some Reliability Parameters 1.Van Deventer P.J.U. and De Wet T. Doc. No. TV0010-980040-730. Mei 1998.

• Confidence Bounds For System Reliability. Van Deventer P.J.U. and De Wet T.Doc. No. TV0010-990027-730. Februarie 1999.

Conferences

• Influence and Outliers in Non-linear Regression. Van Deventer P.J.U. and Troskie C.G.  – the  1992 SASA  annual conference. 

• Smoothing of a Non-linear multivariate data set. Van Deventer P.J.U. and Troskie C.G.  –  the  1994 SASA annual conference.

• Statistical Process Control in Quality Control milieu. Popular lecture. May 1995.

• Saddlepoint Approximation – Why and How. Pieta van Deventer and Tertius de Wet  – the  2000 SASA  annual conference. 

• Saddlepoint Approximations for Quantiles. Pieta van Deventer and Tertius de Wet – the  2001 SASA  annual conference.

• Saddlepoint approximations for regression quantiles. 45th Annual conference of SASA, UNISA, 2002. (with T de Wet & PJ de Jongh).

Societies and Committees

• Member of the South African Statistical Association

• Member of the Operations Research Society of South Africa

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