Sebnem Er
Professor
Department of Statistical Sciences
University of Cape Town
South Africa
Biography
Åžebnem Er has a BSc. degree on Management Engineering from Istanbul Technical University of Turkey, and a PhD in Quantitative Methods from Istanbul University of Turkey. Her PhD thesis entitled “Dynamic Panel Data Analysis and the Determinants of Stock Returns in Turkish Manufacturing Sector” addresses the issue of the applicability of efficient market theory to the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) market. She has finished her postdoctoral research on stratified sampling in School of Computing in Dublin City University (DCU) in Ireland. While she was doing her postdoctoral research, she tutored “Statistics” courses on the “Quantitative Finance and Actuarial Mathematics” degree and in the first semester of 2010-2011 academic year, she has taught R and tutored for “Probability and Statistics” courses in the “Computer Applications and Enterprise Computing” degrees in DCU.
Research Interest
Time series analysis, panel data, spatial statistics
