Jingchen (Monika) Hu

Jingchen (Monika) Hu Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

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Jinchen (Monika) Hu received her BS in Computing Mathematics from City University of Hong Kong and her PhD in Statistics from Duke University, North Carolina. Her research interests lie in developing Bayesian statistical methodology for applied problems that intersect with the social sciences. She focuses particularly on two areas of methodological research, one is dealing with missing data in surveys, and the other is simulating synthetic datasets for public release.

BS, City University of Hong Kong; MS, PhD Duke University.
At Vassar since 2015

Contact

Email: jihu@vassar.edu
Phone: 845-437-7838
Office: Rockefeller Hall
Box: 27

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Departments and Programs

Mathematics and Statistics

Courses

MATH 241. Probability
MATH 347. Bayesian Statistics

In the Media

Crunching the Numbers

Emily Janoski ’20 and three of her friends recently spent an entire weekend crunching data about the Canadian Rugby 7s Senior Women’s Team—and they weren’t alone in this curious pursuit. At DataFest, an annual event for statistics and data science aficionados in colleges around the country, about 60 Vassar students and more than 2,000 others analyzed the same information.

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