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Siti Marponga Binti Tolos

Academic Qualification

  • Ph.D in Statistics - Doctor of Philosophy, Kansas State University
  • Master of Science (Mathematics) - Masters Degree, University of Arkansas
  • Master of Science (Statistics) - Masters Degree, University of Arkansas
  • Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) - Bachelor Degree, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Siti Marponga Binti Tolos (Dr.)

Assistant Professor
IIUM Kuantan Campus

KULLIYYAH OF SCIENCE

smtolos@iium.edu.my
5066


Area of Specialisation


  • Natural Science ~ Mathematical Sciences ~ Applied Statistics ~ Statistical Modelling - Nonparametric Statistical Modelling
  • Natural Science ~ Mathematical Sciences ~ Applied Statistics ~ Statistical Inferences - Specialized on nonparametric hypothesis testing
  • Natural Science ~ Mathematical Sciences ~ Applied Statistics ~ Exploratory Data Analysis
  • Natural Science ~ Mathematical Sciences ~ Applied Statistics ~ Probability and Distribution Theory


Teaching Responsibilities


STATISTICAL METHODS 2023/2024
STATISTICAL MODELLING 2023/2024
THEORY OF PROBABILITY 2023/2024


Supervision


Circulating And Salivary Microrna Expression Analysis In Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: Potential For Diagnostic Biomarker.
Ph.D Completed 2020 Co-supervisor
A Minimum Spanning Tree (Mst) Of Shariah-Compliant Stocks Listed On Bursa Malaysia: An Empirical Study.
Master Completed 2020 Co-supervisor


Research Projects


Completed
2018 - 2023 The effect of a structured telephone call, text message follow-up and chewing gum on orthodontic pain and anxiety
2015 - 2020 The Role of Option-Implied Information in Improving a Portfolio Selection
On-Going
2016 - Present Molecular dynamics of tumor microRNAs in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Improving the understanding on the role of circulating microRNAs
2011 - Present (RU2011) Nonparametric tests of no covariate-treatment interaction and no main covariate effects


Publications


Article

2022 Effectiveness of verbal, verbal-written and video instructions on gingival health of patients with fixed appliances. International Journal of Dentistry and Oral Science (IJDOS), 9 (4) pp. 5282-5287
2022 Orthodontic pain – the state of the evidence. IIUM Journal of Orofacial and Health Sciences (IJOHS), 3 (2) pp. 203-211
2018 Antioxidant activities of Dialium indum L. fruit and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) of the active fractions. Antioxidants, 7 (11) pp. 1-14
2018 Expression of circulating miR-101 and miR-744 in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and their performance as diagnostic biomarkers. Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research, 11 (9) pp. 14-14
2013 Performance of selected imputation techniques for missing variances in meta-analysis . Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 435 (1) pp. 012037
2010 A distribution free test to detect general dependence between a response variable and a covariate in the presence of heteroscedastic treatment effects. The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 38 (3) pp. 408-433
Conference or Workshop Item

2017 Asset allocation using option-implied moments. In: 1st International Conference on Applied & Industrial Mathematics and Statistics (ICoAIMS 2017),
2017 Evaluation of antioxidant activities of various extracts from Dialium indium var. indium L. fruits. In: International Conference on Natural Products (ICNP 2017),
2017 The quadriceps muscle of knee joint modelling using Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization-Neural Network (PSO-NN). In: 37th International Conference on Quantum Probability and Related Topics (QP37) 2016,
2016 Epidemiology of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC) in Pahang, Malaysia. In: 3rd Pan Asian Biomedical Science Conference 2016,
2012 Performance of selected imputation techniques for missing variances in meta-analysis . In: 4th International Conference on Advancement of Science and Technology,
Monograph

2020 The role of option-implied information in improving a portfolio selection. In: ,