Omar Chocotea Poca
PhD in Statistics
About me 🔗
Omar Chocotea Poca obtained his PhD in Statistics from the Institute of Statistics at the Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile. He carried out his doctoral research under the supervision of Professor Germán M. Ibacache (UV) and Professor Orietta Nicolis (UNAB). His doctoral dissertation, “Some Classes of Asymmetrically Linked Models for Dichotomous Qualitative Response Data: Properties and Estimation,” was evaluated by a distinguished committee that included Professor Reinaldo B. Arellano Valle, recipient of the prestigious Mahalanobis Award from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Currently, Omar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
- PhD in Statistics, Universidad de Valparaíso 🇨🇱
- Thesis grade: 7/7
- GPA: 6.7/7 (Highest Distinction)
- Master’s in Mathematics, Statistics Mention, Universidad del Bío-Bío 🇨🇱
- Thesis grade: 7/7
- GPA: 6.7/7 (Highest Distinction)
- Bachelor’s in Statistics, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés 🇧🇴
- Thesis grade: 98/100
Research Areas 🔗
- Analysis of Perception Surveys
- Asymmetric Distributions
- Asymmetric Link Models
- Bayesian Statistics
Highlights 🔗
- Honorary Member, Sociedad Científica de Investigadores en Sociología, Bolivia
- 2nd Place, Statistical Knowledge Contest, Latin American Congress of Statistics Students, Peru