Mr Markus Chagas Stein

Biography

Markus joined the Department of Statistics as a PhD student in October 2013, under the supervision of Professor Chris Wild and Professor Thomas Lumley. He has an BSc in Statistics (2006) from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, and an MSc in Statistics (2008) from Federal Univesity of Minas Gerais, both in Brazil. From 2009 to 2010, Markus worked in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Federal University of Pelotas, then he moved to his current position as Assistant Professor at UFRGS in October 2010.

Publication:

Stein, M. C. Ferreira da Silva, M. Duczmal, L. H. (2014). Alternatives to the usual likelihood ratio test in mixed linear models. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 69, 184–197. DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2013.08.002