I have a B.S. in Econometrics from Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University and am preparing for graduate study. My interests are time-series and financial econometrics, statistical computing and simulation, and applied machine learning.
Website · CV (PDF) · LinkedIn · myucanlar@gmail.com
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TÜBİTAK 2209-A undergraduate research project (2023–2024): Brand preference and loyalty. Project lead.
Survey design and data collection (
$N = 407$ ); normality checks, Spearman correlations,$\chi^2$ tests of independence, and ANOVA with Tukey's HSD. - International Data Science and Statistics Congress (IDSSC 2024): oral presentation. Multi-class random forest classification on imbalanced data with SMOTE resampling.
- V. International Applied Statistics Congress (UYIK 2024): proceedings paper. Consumer preferences analysed with two-sample tests and correlation analysis.
I am revising my earlier projects one by one. Each revised repository has unit tests, fixed seeds, figures and tables
generated by the code, and a short project note. NEWS.md lists what was corrected relative to the first version,
which is kept as the v1.0.0 release.
Econometrics and finance
| Repository | Question | Language |
|---|---|---|
| Return-Dynamics-of-ASELSAN | How does ASELSAN's daily return move with the market, the exchange rate, global risk and sovereign risk on the same day, and can these factors forecast the next day's return? | Python |
| ADF_Unit_Root | What is the order of integration of Turkish card spending, a USD loan rate and consumer prices, once calendar effects, logs, the ADF model, the lag criterion and a structural break are taken into account? | Python |
Probability and simulation
| Repository | Question | Language |
|---|---|---|
| CLT-Zoo-exercise | Where do the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem hold for sixteen distributions, and how much does the continuity correction help for discrete sums? Interactive notebook. | Python |
| CLT-speed-race-exercise | How fast does the central limit theorem work, and what decides it? Exact Kolmogorov distances, simulation noise, heavy tails. | Python |
| coin-flipping-exercise | What do the running mean, the pointwise 95% band and the normal approximation actually show for coin tosses? | Python |
Numerical computing
| Repository | Question | Language |
|---|---|---|
| Naive-Summation | How large is the rounding error of naive floating-point summation, and when does it matter? | Python |
| linear-congruential-generator | When does a linear congruential generator have full period, and how good are its numbers? | R |
 ASELSAN: explanatory power with and without same-day factors, and the effect of each factor |
 Monthly inflation in Türkiye and its Zivot–Andrews break, autumn 2021 |
 Standardized mean of Exponential draws approaching the normal law |
 Discrete sums: exact distance to the normal law, with and without the continuity correction |
 Running means of coin tosses and the pointwise 95% band |
 Rounding error of naive, pairwise and Kahan summation |
 RANDU: consecutive triples fall on 15 planes; MINSTD for comparison |
Other projects, not yet revised: OLS diagnostics under multicollinearity and heteroskedasticity compared with random forest regression; a feedforward neural network for classification.
Python (NumPy, pandas, statsmodels, SciPy, scikit-learn), R, Stata, EViews, SPSS, MATLAB, SQL, LaTeX. Languages: Turkish, English.
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