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Dr. Chandima Priyadarshani
Senior Lecturer (Higher Grade)
Faculty of Humanities & Sciences | Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Career Summary
Dr. Chandima Priyadarshani obtained her BSc (Hons) degree in Statistics with a first class from the University of Colombo in 2013. She completed her PhD in Statistics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia in 2020.
After completion of her PhD, she worked as a senior lecturer (Grade II) in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Faculty of Computing at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University. Currently she is working as a senior lecturer (Higher Grade) in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences at SLIIT. She has over 10 years experience in teaching at university level (local and international), research and consultancy in the field of Statistics. She has published in several international journals and presented in international conferences.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Statistics: La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. (Feb. 2016-Dec.2019)
- B.Sc. (Hons) in Statistics: University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (Sep. 2008-Jan. 2013)
HONOURS AND AWARDS
- La Trobe University Postgraduate Research Scholarship (LTUPRS) Feb. 2016-Aug. 2019
- La Trobe University Full Fee Research Scholarship (LTUFFRS) Feb. 2016 - Dec. 2019
Research Interests and Memberships
Research Interests
- Robust Statistics
- Time Series
- Distribution free Inference
Memberships
Ongoing Research
My Publications
Journal Publications
- Arachchige, Chandima NPG, 2020. " "Distribution-Free Confidence Intervals for Functions of Quantiles" " Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 2020, pp.1-3,
- Arachchige, Chandima NPG, Prendergast, Luke A, and Stuadte, Robert G. " "Robust analogs to the coefficient of variation." " Journal of Applied Statistics, 2020, pp.1-23,
- Arachchige, Chandima NPG, Cairns, Maxwell, and Prendergast, Luke A. " "Interval estimators for ratios of independent quantiles and interquantile ranges." " Communications in statistics-simulation and computation, 2019, pp.1-17,
- Arachchige, Chandima NPG, and Prendergast, Luke A. " Confidence intervals for median absolute deviations. " arxiv preprint, 2019, arxiv:1910.00229,
- Arachchige, Chandima NPG, and Prendergast, Luke A. " Mean skewness measures " arXiv preprint, 2019, arXiv:1912.06996,
Conference Proceedings
- Priyadarshani, GACN, Tilakaratne, CD, Sunethra, AA, Oshani, DK. Modeling monthly coconut prices in Sri Lanka using non-linear time series models in International Statistics Conference 2014, year 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka,
Conference Presentations
- Arachchige, Chandima NPG " Robust Comparisons of Variation using Ratios of Interquantile Ranges. Presentation, at 1st Victorian Research Students Meeting in Probability and Statistics (VRSMiPS), La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 2017
- Arachchige, Chandima NPG " Robust Comparisons of Variation using Ratios of Interquantile Ranges Presentation, at International Robust Statistics Conference (ICORS), University of Wollongong, Sydney, Australia, 2017
- Arachchige, Chandima NPG " Robust analogues to the coefficient of variation. Presentation, at 2nd Victorian Research Students Meeting in Probability and Statistics (VRSMiPS), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2018
- Arachchige, Chandima NPG " Robust analogues to the coefficient of variation Presentation, at International Society for Clinical Biostatistics and Australian Statistical Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2018
- Arachchige, Chandima NPG " Confidence intervals for median absolute deviations Presentation, at 3rd Victorian Research Students Meeting in Probability and Statistics (VRSMiPS), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2019
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