Registrar

Dr. NWAKUYA MAUREEN TOBECHUKWU

NAME:                                           Dr. NWAKUYA MAUREEN TOBECHUKWU

DEPARTMENT:                             MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS

DESIGNATION:                             LECTURER

RANK:                                           SENIOR LECTURER

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION:       ECONOMETRICS & STATISTICAL MODELLING

QUALIFICATIONS:                       Ph.D (STATISTICS) MOUAUMSc. (STATISTICS) IMSU, BSc. (STATISTICS) IMSU

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Name:                           NWAKUYA, Maureen Tobechukwu                                                           

Discipline:                      Statistics            

Date of birth:                 3rd october 1973                                                                                                                     

Present Appointment:    Senior Lecturer                                                                                     

Area of Specialization:   Econometrics                                                                                       

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Academic Qualification:  

Ph.D:                               Statistics                                                                                                                                                    :       MSc:                                Michael Okpara University of  Ariculture Umudike;  (2016)                                                                                .                                                                                                                                                                                                    Statistics                                                                                                                                                              Imo State University, Owerri; (2006)                                           BSc (21):                                            Statistics:                                                                                                                                                         Imo State University, Owerri; (1998)                                                                                                            Academinc/Administrative                                                                                                      Experience:                                                                                                                                  Dec. 2007- Oct. 2010             Assistant Lecturer: Welfare officer department of                                                                             Mathematics/Statistics; Lecturing of  undergraduate students;                                             `                       supervision of undergraduate projects;                                                                                               marking scripts and grading of results.                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Oct.2010 - Oct 2014               Lecturer 11:  Welfare officer department of Statistics;                                                                       Member of committee for organizing research lectures,                                                                    in the Faculty of Sciences;  Lecturing of  undergraduate students;                                                                                                                                            supervision of undergraduate projects; marking scripts                                                                      and grading of results. 

Oct 2014 – Oct 2017              Lecturer 1: Member of welfare committee Faculty                                                                            Science; Member of  undergraduate project supervision committee,                                                 Maths/Stats Dept.; Lecturing of undergraduate students;                                                                 supervision of undergraduate             students; marking scripts, grading                                                      results and students’ academic staff advisor.   

Oct2017-2019                         Senior Lecturer: Member of welfare committee Faculty                                                        Science; Member of  undergraduate project supervision committee,                                     Maths/Stats Dept.; Lecturing of post graduate and  undergraduate                                      students; supervision of post graduate and undergraduate students;                                     marking scripts, grading results and students’ academic staff                                               advisor.

2019-Till date              Senior Lecturer: Member of Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QAQC) committee Faculty of Science, Chairperson Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QAQC) committee department of Maths/Stats.; Member of  Faculty of Science Seminar & Exch-Linkage committee, Member of  Faculty of Science Media and Publicity committee; Lecturing of post graduate and undergraduate students; supervision of post graduate and undergraduate students; marking scripts, grading results and students’ academic staff advisor.

Book Authorship:                  (i) Essentials of Econometrics                                                     (iii)Descriptive Statistics                                                                                                                (iii) Statistics for Biological and Medical Sciences                                                                       (iv) Recent Advances in Mathematical Research and Computer Science

Professional Experience          (i) External Assessor for promotion for some academic Institutions                          (ii) Reviewer for some academic Journals.

Journal Publications:                                                                       

(1).  Nzerem F.E, Nwakuya M. T. & Ijomah  M. A. (2010); A Mathematical Analysis of                 Cash flow in a macro economy: International Journal of pure and Applied Sciences,Vol 9,(No 1), pp 112-118.

(2) Nzerem F.E, Nwakuya M. T., Ijomah M. A. & Orumie U. C (2010); The Analysis of surface forces on a two-component Newtonian fluid; Journal of Mathematical Sciences; Vol 1, (No 1), pp 82-90.

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(12)     Nwakuya M. T. & Ijomah M. A. (2017); Fixed Effect Versus Random Effects Modelling            in a Panel Data Analysis: A consideration of Economic and Political Indicators in Six African Countries. International Journal of Statistics and Applications;Vol 7(No 6);     pp 275-279.

(13)      Nwakuya M. T. and Nwabueze J. C. (2018); Application of Box-Cox Transformation as a   Corrective Measure to Heteroscedasticity Using an Economic Data. American       Journal of Mathematics and Statistics; Vol 8(1); 8-12.

  1. Nwakuya M. T. & Nwabueze J.C (2018); Comparison of shrinkage-based estimators in the presence of missing data: A multiple imputation analysis; International Journal of Statistics & Application, Vol 8(6), Pg 305-308.
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(16)      Onyegbuchulem B.O,  Nwakuya M. T. & Nwabueze J.C (2019), Choice of Appropriate Power Transformation of Skewed Distribution for Quantile Regression Model; American Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 7, No. 3, pg 105-111.

(17)      Biu O. Emmanuel,  Nwakuya T. Maureen  and  Nduka Wonu (2019), Detection of Non-Normality in Data Sets and Comparison between Different Normality Tests;  Asian Journal of Probability and Statistics, 5(4): pg 1-20.

(18)      Nwakuya, M. T. & Biu, E. O. (2019);  Comparative Study of Within-Group and First Difference Fixed Effects Models;  American Journal of Mathematics and Statistics 2019, 9(4): 177-181

(19)      Onyegbuchulem, Besta Okey,  Nwakuya, Maureen T.,  Nwabueze, Joy C.  and Otu Archibong Otu (2019); Evaluation of the Assumptions of the Linear Regression Model on the Quantile Regression Model, International Journal of Advancements in Research & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 9, pg 17-24.

(20)      Nwakuya Maureen T, Nwabueze Joy. C., Onyegbuchulem, Besta.Okey and  Imoh Johndamascene C. (2019); Response Variable Transformation for Quantile Regression Model; International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research Volume 10, Issue 8, pg 446-457

(21)      Nwakuya, M. T. & Biu, E. O. (2019);  An illustration of Principle Component Analysis as a Solution to Multicollinearity; International Journal of Scientific Research and Innovative Technology, Vol 6 (6), pg 72-78.

(22)      Ijomah M. A. & Nwakuya M. T (2020); Evaluation of Some Estimators Performance on Linear Models with Heteroscedasticity and Serial Autocorrelation; International Journal of Mathematics and Statistics Studies Vol.8, No.2, pg. 1-13.

(23)      Ijomah M. A. and  Nwakuya M.T. (2020);  On the Omission of Intercept Term in Model Estimation: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study, Research & Reviews: Journal of Statistics, Vol 9 (1), pg 1-8.

(24)      Nwakuya M.T. & Ijomah M. A. (2020); Panel Quantile Regression with Penalized Fixed Effects and Correlated Random Effects, European Journal of Statistics and Probability Vol.8, No.1, pp, 74-81.

(25)      Ijomah M. A. & Nwakuya M. T (2020); A Review of Standardization and Centering Techniques in a Multicollinear Regression Model; International Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, Vol 18 (3), pg 97-110.

(26)      Nwakuya M. T., Onyegbuchulem, Besta.Okey and Nwabueze Joy. C (2020); B.Bounded

            Logistic Quantile Regression An Alternative To Bounded Logistic Quantile Regression; Academic Journal of Statistics and Mathematics.

(27)      Nwakuya M. T. & Ijomah M. A. (2020); Panel Data Estimators in the Presence of serial and Spatial Correlation with Panel Heteroscedasticity: A Simulation Study; Quarterly Journal of Econometrics Research 2020 vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1-11.                                            

(28)      Nwakuya M.T. & Ijomah M. A. (2020); Panel Quantile Regression with Penalized Fixed Effects and Correlated Random Effects; European Journal of Statistics and Probability vol.8, no.1, pp, 74-81.

(29)      Nwakuya M. T.  (2020); Assessment of Mental Health of Undergraduate Students Based on Age: A Bayesian Ordinal Quantile Regression Approach; Quarterly Journal of Econometrics Research, vol 6. No:1, pp 12-17.

(30)      Nwakuya M. T.  & Mmaduka O.(2020); Survival Quantile Regression Analysis of Covid-19 in Rivers State, Nigeria; International Journal of Mathematical Research vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-11.

(31)      Nwakuya M. T., Onyegbuchulem, besta Okey (2021); Effects of Quantile Crossing on Quantile Regression Coefficients; Academic Journal of Statistics and Mathematics vol.7, no.5; pp 1-8.

(32)      Nwakuya M. T.  (2021); Quantile Generalized additive model a robust alternative to Generalized Additive model; International Journal of Mathematical Research.

(33)      Biu O. Emmanuel and Nwakuya T. Maureen (2021). Investigating Heteroscedastic disturbances in some transformed Economic Models while eliminating Multicollinearity, International Journal of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, vol. 6, no.5, pp 1-7.

(34)      Nwakuya, T. Maureen and BIU, O. Emmanuel (2021). Estimation of Gompertz Growth Model on Mortality Rate of Children Under Five Years of Age in Nigeria that Suffered From HIV/AIDS and Diarrhea. Academic Journal of Statistics and Mathematics (AJSM) Vol.7, No.10, pp. 23-27.

 

Current Area of Research; Interest:

  • Conditional and Unconditional Quantile regression Analysis
  • Qualitative Response Analysis
  • Categorical data Analysis
  • Transformation in Quantile Regression
  • Survival Analysis
  • Missing values Analysis
  • Non-Parametric Quantile Regression

Professional Membership:

  1. Nigeria Statistical Association
  2. Nigeria Mathematical Association
  3. International Biometric Society
  4. International Association of Applied Econometrics
  5. Organization of Women in Science for Developing Countries
  6. Royal Statistical Society, Nigeria

 

Referees:

 

(1)Prof Nwabueze J.C:                       Department of Statistics, Micheal Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State.                                        Email:            This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.                                                  Phone No:08068164190       

(2)Prof. Duru P.N                               Department of Geography, Imo State,University,                                                                             Owerri.                                                                                                                                                Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.                                                                                                            Phone No: 08034542244

(2) Prof. Nwobi F.N.                          Head of Department, Department of                                                                                                 Statistics; Imo State,University,                                                                                                         Owerri.                                                                                                                                                Email:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.                                                                                                           Phone No: 08037169173

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