Sean van der Merwe

Coordinator of UFS Statistical Consultation Unit

University of the Free State

Biography

I serve because I’m grateful. I’m grateful for the talents and opportunities given to me and wish to use them optimally, in the service of humanity. Primarily, I am grateful for the salvation granted me by Jesus Christ which fuels my spirit and drives me to give.

I am the coordinator of the internal Statistical Consultation Unit of University of the Free State, South Africa. I also lecture Bayesian Statistics. Married to Catherine Sheares (now vdM). I used to play a lot of computer games and program for fun, now I only play a few games and only program for work (although my work is fun - what a blessing). For a full list of publications see my CV.

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

Miscellaneous

Everything that’s not in another project.

Teaching portfolio

Consultation

Open information relating to my consultation work.

Time Series Topics

Time Series course page.

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 give guidance to colleagues and students 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; stochastic simulation 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.