Yelie Yuan

Statistics PhD Candidate

University of Connecticut

About me

I’m pursuing my PhD degree in Statistics at Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut (UConn). My research interests lie in social network analysis and statistical computing. As the department webmaster, I am working on websites including UConn Department of Statistics, New England Statistical Society (NESS), New England Statistics Symposium, New England Rare Disease Statistics (NERDS) Workshop.

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Interests
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Statistical Computing
Education

  • Ph.D. in Statistics, 2023 (Expected)

    University of Connecticut

  • M.S. in Applied Financial Mathematics, 2020

    University of Connecticut

  • B.Econ. in Finance, 2015

    Zhengzhou University

Research

Generating general preferential attachment networks with R package wdnet
We present a generic, user-friendly implementation of weighted, directed PA network generation with R package wdnet.
Yelie Yuan, Tiandong Wang, Jun Yan, Panpan Zhang
R package wdnet
A package for weighted and directed networks.
Yelie Yuan, Tiandong Wang, Jun Yan, Panpan Zhang
Generating directed networks with predetermined assortativity measures
We introduce a degree-preserving rewiring algorithm, called DiDPR, for rewiring directed networks with given directed assortativity coefficients.
Tiandong Wang, Jun Yan, Yelie Yuan, Panpan Zhang
Assortativity measures for weighted and directed networks
We propose a class of assortativity coefficients that capture the assortative characteristics of weighted and directed networks.
Yelie Yuan, Jun Yan, Panpan Zhang

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