Isaac Adeola Adeniyi is currently a Lecturer II at the Department of Statistics, Federal University Lokoja, Kogi state. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Statistics from the University of Ilorin, Kwara state in 2012 and 2015 respectively and has held academic positions at Kwara State University, Malete. He is a member of the Professional Statisticians Society of Nigeria (PSSN) formerly Nigeria Statistical Society (NSS).
Isaac has been teaching Statistics and Mathematics for six years. He has taught courses such as elementary mathematics, probability theory, statistical inference, statistical quality control, multivariate analysis, regression and analysis of variance at undergraduate level. He has supervised 6 undergraduate thesis. He is a versatile programmer using R and Python, and can also write programs in C, C++, C# and MATLAB. He is very proficient in Statistical modelling, experimental designs and statistical computing using SAS, STATA, BUGS (WinBUGS, JAGS, MultiBUGS), Matlab, SPSS, S-Plus and MINITAB. He developed a stand-alone software, Super QC-Pack, with co-author Dr. Waheed B. Yahya for analysing quality control data. Super QC-Pack is freely available at https://1library.net/document/zgr6dkvq-super-pack-novel-statistical-software-analysing-quality-control.html. He is a member of the Data Mining Research group led by Professor Waheed Babatunde Yahya. He is currently in the final phase of his Ph.D. in Statistics program in University of Ilorin.
Isaac has served as students level adviser/coordinator for over 4 years; Collation Officer for the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) in the 2019 Kogi State House of Assembly, National House of Assembly and presidential Elections; Chief Judge for Faculty of Science Students Association Quiz and Science Exhibition programs.
Isaac’s research interest include but not limited to Statistical Computing, Predictive Modelling, Big data analysis, Biostatistics, Generalized Mixed Effects Models and Bayesian Modelling His current research include, correlation based penalized regression methods; spatial analysis and risk factors of childhood anaemia and haemoglobin level in Nigeria; Bayesian generalized linear mixed effects models using normal-independent distributions; Bayesian generalized linear mixed effects models using skew-elliptical distributions; nonlinear mixed effects approach for modelling galaxy surface brightness profiles.
