Dr. Chandima Priyadarshani is no longer serving KDU
Qualifications
Employment
Research Interest
Publications
Participation
Workshops Conducted
Honers and Awards
Consultancy
Memberships
Specialised Statistical and Other Packages
Qualifications
- PhD in Statistics: La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Feb. 2016-Dec. 2019
Thesis Title: Distribution free confidence intervals for functions of quantiles
Principal Supervisor: Prof. Luke A. Prendergast
Co-Supervisor: Emeritus Prof. Robert G. Stuadte - B.Sc. (Hons) in Statistics: University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Sep. 2008-Jan. 2013
GPA: 3.54 (First Class)
Thesis Title: An analysis of temporal patterns of coconut prices in Sri Lanka
Employment
- Head of the Department Feb. 2021-Sep. 2021
Department of Computational Mathematics, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanaka. - Senior Lecturer – Grade II Jan. 2021-present
Department of Computational Mathematics, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanaka. - Visiting Lecturer Oct. 2020-Feb. 2021
Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka - Casual Academic Aug. 2016-Aug. 2020
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, La Trobe University, Australia. - Assistant Lecturer Sep. 2015-Feb. 2016
Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), Sri Lanka - Project Executive June 2015-Sep. 2015
Resources Development Consultants (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka - Visiting Lecturer July 2015-Dec. 2015
Department of Management Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Open University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka - Lecturer Aug. 2014-Feb. 2015
Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka - Data Analyst Sep. 2013-Sep. 2014
Higher Education for the Twenty first Century (HETC), HETC Project office, Sri Lanka - Assistant Lecturer May 2013-Aug. 2014
Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka - Instructor Feb. 2013-May 2013
Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka - Field Officer July 2012
Alcohol and Drug Information Centre (ADIC), Sri Lanka - Intern March 2011-May 2011
Research and International Affairs Division, Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority, Sri Lanka
Research Interest
- Robust Statistics
- Non-Parametric
- Statistical Inference
- Time Series Analysis
Publications
- Arachchige, Chandima NPG, 2020. Distribution-Free Confidence Intervals for Functions of Quantiles. Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 1-3.
Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0004972720001033. - Arachchige, Chandima NPG, Cairns, Maxwell, and Prendergast, Luke A. 2019. Interval estimators for ratios of independent quantiles and interquantile ranges. Communications in statistics-simulation and
computation, 1-17. Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2019.1634814 - Arachchige, Chandima NPG, Prendergast, Luke A, and Stuadte, Robert G. 2020. Robust analogs to the coefficient of variation. Journal of Applied Statistics, 1-23.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2020.1808599 - Arachchige, Chandima NPG, and Prendergast, Luke A. 2019. Confidence intervals for median absolute deviations. arxiv preprint arxiv:1910.00229.
- Arachchige, Chandima NPG, and Prendergast, Luke A. 2019. Mean skewness measures. arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.06996.
- Priyadarshani, GACN, Tilakaratne, CD, Sunethra, AA, Oshani, DK. 2014. Modeling monthly coconut prices in Sri Lanka using non-linear time series models.
Conference Presentations
- Robust Comparisons of Variation using Ratios of Interquantile Ranges. 1st Victorian Research Students Meeting in Probability and Statistics (VRSMiPS), Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 5th June 2017.
- Robust Comparisons of Variation using Ratios of Interquantile Ranges. International Robust Statistics Conference (ICORS), University of Wollongong, Sydney, Australia, 2nd to 7th of July 2017.
- Robust analogues to the coefficient of variation. 2nd Victorian Research Students Meeting in Probability and Statistics (VRSMiPS), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 25th September 2018
- Robust analogues to the coefficient of variation. International Society for Clinical Biostatistics and Australian Statistical Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 26th to 30 August 2018
- Confidence intervals for median absolute deviations. 3rd Victorian Research Students Meeting in Probability and Statistics (VRSMiPS), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2nd October 2019
Participation
Conference/ Workshop Participation
- AMSI Summer School 2020 in the mathematical sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 6th – 31st of Jan. 2020
- Research School on Statistics and Data Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 24 – 26th of July 2019
- The Big Data Analysis Workshop, Institute of Advanced Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 13 – 15th of March 2017
Workshops Conducted
- Short Course on Statistical Packages (SPSS and Minitab) for Data Analysis Institute of Applied Statistics Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka. 5th April – 3rd May 2013
Honers 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
- First class (GPA : 3.54) Bsc (Hons) Special degree in Statistics Sep. 2008-Jan. 2013
Consultancy
- Graduand Employability Study 2013
University of Sri Jayewardenepura Sri Lanka, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka
Higher Education for the Twenty first Century (HETC)-World Bank Funded Project
Implementing Organization: Ministry of Higher Education, Sri Lanka
Contribution: Data analysis, interpretation of results and report preparation - Social Assessment for Rehabilitation of Muththaiyankaddu Dam 2015
Mullaitivu District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka-World Bank Funded Project
Implementing Organizations: Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment and Resources Development Consultants (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka
Contribution: Baseline survey data analysis and report preparation - Social Survey of communities affected by the rehabilitation of Naghlo Hydropower Plant
Surobi district, Kabul province, Afghanistan-World Bank Funded Project 2015
Implementing Organizations: Ministry of Energy and Water, Afghanistan and Resources Development Consultants (Pvt) Ltd
Contribution: Social Survey data analysis
Memberships
- Member of Statistical Society of Australia 2016-Present
- Member of Stat Circle ,University of Colombo, Sri Lanka 2011-2013
Specialised Statistical and Other Packages
- R, SPSS, E-Views, Minitab, Matlab, Overleaf, Latex, MS Office