Shenal Dedduwakumara

Dr Shenal Dedduwakumara

Lecturer

School of Public Health

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

I am a Lecturer in Bio-Statistics, focusing primarily on Robust Statistical Methodologies in Health sciences and Economics. Before becoming a part of the School of Public Health in 2024, I served as a Lecturer in Statistics at the School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences for more than three years following the completion of my PhD.

My research developments aim to contribute to the existing body of knowledge in the area of quantile-based methods in modeling and estimation. These new contributions include simulation studies, the construction of new measures, interactive web applications and computational packages with real data applications in this area of research. These measures and their estimates have applications in economics and the health sciences and address significant issues related to the broader scientific research community. 

 

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2021 Dedduwakumara, D. S., Prendergast, L. A., & Staudte, R. G. (2021). An efficient estimator of the parameters of the generalized lambda distribution. JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL COMPUTATION AND SIMULATION, 91(1), 197-215.
    DOI Scopus6 WoS3
    2021 Dedduwakumara, D. S., Prendergast, L. A., & Staudte, R. G. (2021). Some confidence intervals and insights for the proportion below the relative poverty line. SN Business & Economics, 1(10), 22 pages.
    DOI
    2020 Dedduwakumara, D. (2020). Contributions to Estimation and Modeling Using Quantiles. Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 103(3), 523-524.
    DOI
    2019 Dedduwakumara, D. S., Prendergast, L. A., & Robert, G. S. (2019). A simple and efficient method for finding the closest generalized lambda distribution to a specific model. Cogent Mathematics & Statistics, 6(1), 1-11.
    DOI WoS4
    2018 Dedduwakumara, D. S., & Prendergast, L. A. (2018). Confidence intervals for quantiles from histograms and other grouped data. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 49(6), 1546-1559.
    DOI Scopus4 WoS1

  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2019 Dedduwakumara, D. S., & Prendergast, L. A. (2019). Interval Estimators for Inequality Measures Using Grouped Data. In Communications in Computer and Information Science Vol. 1150 CCIS (pp. 238-252). Singapore: Springer.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS1

  • Preprint
    Year Citation
    2019 Dedduwakumara, D. S., Prendergast, L. A., & Staudte, R. G. (2019). Insights and inference for the proportion below the relative poverty
    line.
  • Lecturer and Course Coordinator, ‘Data Management and Statistical Computing’, Master of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, 2024.
  • Lecturer and Course Coordinator, ‘Probability and Statistics’, Bachelor of Mathematical Sciences, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Joint Education Initiative between Ocean University of China and the University of Adelaide, 2023.
  • Lecturer and Co-Course Coordinator, ‘Projects in Mathematics’, Bachelor of Mathematical Sciences, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Joint Education Initiative between Ocean University of China and the University of Adelaide, 2023.
  • Lecturer and Course Coordinator, ‘Data Science’, Bachelor of Mathematical Sciences, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Joint Education Initiative between Ocean University of China and the University of Adelaide, 2023.
  • Lecturer and Course Coordinator, ‘Probability and Statistics’, Master of Data Science, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 2022.
  • Lecturer and Course Coordinator, ‘Decision Science’, Master of Data Science, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 2022.
  • Lecturer and Course Coordinator, ‘Data Taming’, Master of Data Science, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 2022.
  • Lecturer and Course Coordinator, ‘Data Literacy’, Master of Data Science, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 2022.
  • Lecturer and Course Coordinator, ‘Statistics and Numerical Methods, Bachelor of Mathematical Sciences, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 2021.
  • Lecturer and Co-Course Coordinator, ‘Advanced Mathematical Perspectives II', Bachelor of Mathematical Sciences, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 2021.
  • Lecturer and Course Coordinator, ‘Statistical Practice I', Bachelor of Mathematical Sciences, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 2021.

  • Committee Memberships
    Date Role Committee Institution Country
    2021 - ongoing Member Outreach Committee School of Mathematical Sciences Australia
  • Position: Lecturer
  • Phone: 83133184
  • Email: shenal.dedduwakumara@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: 44-60 Rundle Mall - Rundle Mall Plaza, floor Level Four
  • Org Unit: Public Health
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