Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Congratulations to Mr. Stefan Konigorski, visiting PhD student in Statistics, for his success at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society. He won the second prize for Best Poster Presentation with the project completed during his stay at MUN under the supervision of Dr. Yildiz Yilmaz. The project is a joint work with Ms. Yuan Wang, who completed MSc in Statistics at MUN, and Dr. Candemir Cigsar.

An abstract of the study, "Estimating and Testing Direct Genetic Effects in Directed Acyclic Graphs with Multiple Phenotypes using Estimating Equations", can be found in:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gepi.22001/epdf (Abstract #103)