Biography

I am a second year PhD student in Statistics at the University of Warwick. I am part of the OxWaSP programme. I am interested in Applied Statistics, particularly as applied in the Social Sciences. I am currently working on a project analysing data from applications to undergraduate statistics courses in the Statistics department at Warwick, using a decision theory framework. I am supervised by Dr Julia Brettscheider and Dr Anastasia Papavasiliou. I am an R enthusiast and am currently developing the BradleyTerryScalable package, along with Prof David Firth.

Prior to the PhD, my academic path has taken me from a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy (University of Oxford), through an MA in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (University of Toronto), an MPhil in Mathematics Education (University of Cambridge) and an MSc in Applied Statistics (University of Oxford). I also have a PGCE in Secondary Mathematics, have taught at secondary school, and worked in market research.

• Ranking items scalably with the Bradley-Terry model: Introducing the `BradleyTerryScalable` package

  Thu, Jul 6, 2017, useR conference

• An overview of htmlwidgets

  Mon, May 22, 2017, Warwick R User Group

I am an R enthusiast and enjoy developing packages.

• BradleyTerryScalable: An R package to fit the Bradley-Terry model to large and potentially sparse datasets. This package is in the final stages of development. It is currently available on GitHub, and will hopefully be on CRAN by the end of June. The development documentation is available here. I am very excited to be talking about it at useR!2017 soon.

• EMK: A personal package, available on GitHub, to collect various functions I’ve written that I find useful in a number of settings (admittedly, currently just one function!).

I am a teaching instructor for the following courses at the University of Warwick:

• Spring 2017: ST219 - Mathematical Statistics Part B

• E.Kaye.1@warwick.ac.uk