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Written by Miguel Ibanez Salinas who lives and works in Montreal, reading, watching and building things. You can check my linkedin

Welcome to my blog!

In 2012, I won the first prize of the IAOS (International Organization for Official Statistics) Young Statisticians Competition with the paper Exploratory Analysis of the Patterns of Missing Data in the UIS Education Database, which is based on my graduate thesis (HEC Montreal).
Please check my post 2012 IAOS competition for more details.

  1. October 02, 2022

    A quick review of the steps for building an inexpensive blog using Azure Static Web Apps, Gatsby and Visual Studio Code.

  2. September 04, 2022

    The Expectation Maximization (EM) is a general-purpose iterative algorithm used in the calculation of maximum likelihood estimates in cases of incomplete data (graduate school homework - Machine Learning for Large-Scale Data Analysis and Decision Making).

  3. September 09, 2021

    While working at UNESCO, I looked into the data production process for education indicators worldwide and its relation with the evolution of governance indicators. My research (e.g. binary factors analysis, cluster analysis, multinomial random effects logistic regression) won the first place of the 2012 IAOS Young Statistician Prize.

  4. May 01, 2015

    Hello World - post kept temporarily for testing