Chan Kin Yee

Chan, Kin-Yee


Teaching	Research	Useful Links

Email: kinyeechan@gmail.com
Homepage: http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~kinyee/index.html (this page)
LOTUS website: http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~kinyee/lotus.html

Education:

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

Appointments:

	Aug 2000 - Nov 2005: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
	May 2002 - Jul 2002: Honorary Fellow, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
	Nov 1994 - Aug 2000: Senior Tutor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Awards/Honors:

NUS Excellent Teachers Award (University Level)

2003/2004

2002/2003

Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Science, NUS (Faculty Level)

2003/2004

2002/2003

Teaching Assignments:

2005/2006

Semester 1 ST2132 Mathematical Statistics

2004/2005

Semester 1 ST3240 Multivariate Statistical Analysis

Semester 2 ST2131/MA2216 Probability

2003/2004

Semester 1 ST2334 Probability and Statistics

Semester 2 ST4236 Multivariate Statistical Analysis

2002/2003

Semester 1 ST2334 Probability and Statistics

Semester 2 ST2334 Probability and Statistics

2001/2002

Semester 1 ST2131/MA2216 Probability

Semester 2 ST4236 Multivariate Statistical Analysis

2000/2001

Semester 2 ST2131/MA2216 Probability

Research Interests:

	Tree-structured classification and regression methods
	Categorical data analysis
	Multivariate analysis
	Goodness-of-fit tests for binary data
	Data mining techniques

Publications:

	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.
	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.

Software Development:

LOTUS logistic regression tree homepage (version 2.3)

Conference Presentations:

	C. Warren Neel Conference on Statistical Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery, June 22-25, 2002, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
	The 2002 Annual Meeting of the Classification Society of North America, June 13-16, 2002, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
	The Fifth ICSA International Conference, August 17-19, 2001, Hong Kong, China.

Workshop Presentation:

Conduct a 2-day data mining workshop "Classification Trees vs. Logistic Regression,” September 8–9,
2005, jointly supported by SPSS (Singapore) and Statistical Consulting Center, Department of Statistics
and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore.

Useful Links:

Computing

Fortran Links

Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)

Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)

Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview

MiKTeX

EditPlus Text Editor

Miscellaneous

Google

Oxford English Dictionary Online

Data Archives

Last modified: January 07, 2006 by Kin-Yee Chan