Education

• PhD (Goettingen), MSc (British Columbia), MSc, BSc (Dhaka)

Research Interests

• Design and analysis of experiments, medical statistics, causal inference, correlated data analysis, statistical computing, public health
• Short Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
• My homepage at Dhaka University website

Publications (peer-reviewed, selected)

Methodology papers

• “A three-state continuous time Markov chain model for HIV disease burden”. Journal of Applied Statistics, 46(9), 1671-1688, 2019. (with H. Chakraborty and A. Hossain)
• “A PRESS statistic for working correlation structure selection in generalized estimating equations”. Journal of Applied Statistics 46(4), 621-637, 2019. (with G. Inan and J. S. Preisser)
• “Optimum designs for non-linear mixed effects models in the presence of covariates”. Biometrics, 73(3), 927-937, 2017. (with B. Bogacka, S. Gilmour, and Y. Kuresh).
• “Trend of determinants of birth interval dynamics in Bangladesh”. BMC Public Health, 16:934, 2016. (with J. R. Khan and W. Bari).
• “A genetic algorithm for designing microarray experiments”. Computational Statistics, 31(2), 409-424, 2016. (with E. Brunner).
• “A determinant based criterion for working correlation structure selection in generalized estimating equations ”. Statistics in Medicine, 35(11), 1819-1833, 2016. (with A. Jaman, W. Bari, and A. Wahed).
• “Transform-both-sides nonlinear models for in vitro pharmacokinetic experiments ”. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 24(3), 306-324, 2015. (with S. Gilmour).
• “Frailty modeling for clustered survival data: an application to birth interval in Bangladesh”. Journal of Applied Statistics 40(12), 2670-2680, 2013. (with S. Mahmood and B. Zainab)
• “Robustness considerations in selecting efficient two–color microarray designs”, Bioinformatics, 25(18), 2355-2361, 2009. (with F. Bretz and E. Brunner)
• “Model selection using modified Akaike’s Information criterion: an application to maternal morbidity data” , Austrian Journal of Statistics 37(2), 175-184, 2008. (with M. Z. Hossain and M. A. Islam)
• “Computations for the familial analysis of binary trait”. Computational Statistics, 20(3), 439-448, 2005. (with H. Joe)

Collaborative papers

• “Digitalized to reach and track: a retrospective comparison between traditional and conditional estimate of vaccination coverage and dropout rates using e-Tracker data below one-year children in Bangladesh during-COVID and pre-COVID period”. The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia 16, 2023. (with A. Saha, M. Sarker, and others)
• “Birth weight reference for Japanese twins and risk factors for infant mortality: A population-based study”. PLoS ONE 17(7), e0271440, 2022. (with Y. Ishida, Y. Takemoto, and others)
• “Knowledge and practices related to COVID-19 among mothers of under-2 children and adult males: A cross-sectional study in Bangladesh”. BMJ Open 12, e059091, 2022. (with A. Talukder, M. Islam, and others)
• “Effect of Right-Lateral Versus Left-Lateral Tilt Position on Compression of the Inferior Vena Cava in Pregnant Women Determined by Magnetic Resonance Imaging”. Anesthesia & Analgesia 128(6), 1217-1222, 2019. (with N. Fujita, H. Higuchi, and others)
• “Urban‐rural and sex differentials in tuberculosis mortality in Bangladesh: results from a population‐based survey” . Tropical Medicine &amp International Health 24(1), 109-115, 2019. (with M. Sarker, F. Homayra, and others)
• “Identifying novel phenotypes of acute heart failure using cluster analysis of clinical variables” . International journal of cardiology 262, 57-63, 2018. (with Y. Horiuchi, S. Tanimoto, and others)
• “A Matched Case-Control Study to Identify Risk Determinants of Tuberculosis in Bangladesh”. GSTF Journal of Nursing and Health Care (JNHC) 5(1), 2018. (with M. Sarker, F. Homayra, and others)
• “Impact of fortified biscuits on micronutrient deficiencies among primary school children in Bangladesh”. PloS one 12(4), e0174673, 2017. (with A. M. Adams, R. Ahmed, and others)
• “Double trouble: prevalence and factors associated with tuberculosis and diabetes comorbidity in Bangladesh”. Plus one 11(10), e0165396, 2017. (with M. Sarker, M. Barua, and others)
• “A parametric Markov renewal model for predicting tropical cyclones in Bangladesh”. Natural Hazards, 73(2), 597-612, 2014. (with M. Asaduzzaman).

Complete list of publications:

• Google Scholar
• Scopus
• ResearchMap
• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7838-2158

• Web of Science (Publons): ABD-1002-2021

Software

• robustMAdesigns : R package to find good (efficient and robust) two-color microarray designs for one-factor and multi-factor microarray experiments. Details of the methods implemented in the package can be found in my PhD Thesis.
• nparLD : R package to perform non-parametric analysis of longitudinal data in factorial experiments. (with K. Noguchi, E. Brunner and others)
• geemisc : R package to calculate criteria (e.g. determinant based criterion, dbc) for selecting working correlation structure (Statistics in Medicine, 2016)
• GitHub page
• Certified RStudio tidyverse instructor

Theses

• “Efficiency and robustness issues in complex statistical designs for two-color microarray experiments”, PhD thesis, Department of Medical Statistics and Center for Statistics, University of Goettingen, Germany, 11/2005. Advisor : Dr. Edgar Brunner. [fulltext]
• “A comparison of methods for multivariate familial binary responses”, MSc thesis, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Canada, 11/2001. Advisor : Dr. Harry Joe. [fulltext]
• “An extension of multistate hazards model for transitions and reverse transitions”, MSc thesis, Department of Statistics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8/1995. Advisor: Dr. M. Ataharul Islam.

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