Staff Profile

Yasin Okkaoğlu is a Research Assistant in Population Health Sciences with a background in medical statistics, epidemiology and statistical modelling. He recently completed his PhD at the University of Bristol, where his thesis developed and applied Bayesian latent class models to estimate diagnostic test accuracy under complex conditional dependence structures, supported by two large-scale simulation studies and applications to real-world diagnostic datasets

He holds an MSc in Statistics with Applications in Medicine from the University of Southampton (Distinction), and an MSc and BSc in Statistics from Ankara University. 

Yasin has teaching experience across applied statistics, research methods, and statistical programming, and has supported both undergraduate teaching and professional short courses. He is proficient in R, JAGS, WinBUGS, SAS, and Stata, with experience in high-performance computing environments and Bayesian modelling workflows