Sean van der Merwe

Coordinator of UFS Statistical Consultation Unit

Biography

As of 2019 I am the coordinator of the internal Statistical Consultation Unit of University of the Free State, South Africa. I also lecture Bayesian Statistics and coordinate the stats and actuarial honours classes in their research endeavours. All round helpful person. I serve humanity as best I can because I am grateful, particularly for the salvation granted me by Jesus Christ. Technology likes me for some reason nobody understands. Married to Catherine Sheares (now vdM). I used to play a lot of computer games and program for fun, now I only play the game Warframe properly and only program for work (although my work is fun).

Contact

Students MUST first visit learn.ufs.ac.za. All class related questions go on the class discussion forum.

vandermerwes@ufs.ac.za
+27731576131
Westblock 104, UFS
Email for appointment
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Projects

Consultation

Open information relating to my consultation work.

Miscellaneous

Everything that’s not in another project.

Thesis and related work

The research I’ve done related to my thesis.

Thoughts about stuff

My opinions and views on everyday topics.

My work

I currently lecture Bayesian Statistics and coordinate the honours class in their research endeavours.

In the past I have also lectured: Time series analysis; hypothesis testing; introductory statistics and probability; multivariate analysis; statistical programming; financial management; actuarial statistics; and categorical data analysis.

I have given invited talks on Assessment, R, LaTeX, Excel, VBA, Word, Statistics in programming, etc.; but my favourite invited talk was Data Handling for Ages 10 to 12.