Joseph Mercado (, born July 2, 1972) is a Filipino statistician, professor, businessperson and

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who served as

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and vice president at the

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from 2006 to 2018. Mercado has co-authored scientific publications involving

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, and

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and received the Distinguished Research Award from the Academic International Consortium of Indonesia for his work in 2016. At present, Mercado is a member of the Philippine Statistical Association, the National Research Council of the Philippines, and the

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based in Singapore as a fellow.

Early life and education

Mercado finished a Bachelor of Applied Statistics degree in 1993, a

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degree in 2000 and a Doctor of Educational Management degree in 2003, all at the

(PUP). In 2011, Mercado completed a Criminology PhD at the

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. After becoming a university vice president, he attended an Executive Development Program held by the

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with other university administrators to further his knowledge on higher education management.

Career

Polytechnic University of the Philippines (2005–2018)

In 2004, Mercado first sat as the acting director of PUP Ragay. Consequently, in 2006, he was appointed as the director of PUP Sto. Tomas Batangas branch and then designated as the dean of the College of Science. At the same time, he was also the assistant director of the Center for Data and Statistical Analysis. Three years later, he became the executive director for branches and campuses. After a short five-month stint as executive director, Mercado then served as the vice president for branches and campuses for three years. In late 2015, Mercado was then appointed by

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, the university's

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, to be the vice president for research, extension, planning and development. To pursue personal endeavors, Mercado resigned from office in mid-2018. However, he still serves as an expert advisor to the university, specializing in applied statistics.

Notable works

Scientific publications

Mercado has authored and co-authored several

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that have been recognized in national and international journals. Among them are, but not limited to; "Mathematical Model for Estimating Income Tax Revenues in the Philippines through Regression Analysis using Matrices" "Predicting Spousal Physical Violence in the Philippines: a Binary Logistic Regression Analysis” for the

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; and “Modeling the Philippines Real Gross Domestic Product: A Normal Estimation Equation For Multiple Linear Regression” for the

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’ Journal.

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External links

Official ResearchGate profile
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