seminar

Title: Developing Public Speaking Skills in Statistical Communication   Speaker: Mohammed Shahidullah, PhD, MPH               State Demographer               Illinois Department of Public Health and               Adjunct Faculty               The University of Illinois, Springfield,

Title: Panjer Recursion to evaluate total claim distribution recursively   Speaker: Dr. Abdul H. Sharif               Adjunct Professor               Mathematical Sciences Department               Central Connecticut State University, USA.      Abstract: The usual method of evaluating the distribution function of

Title: The Bangladesh paradox: health gains despite poverty and income inequality  Speaker:  Dr. Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury                 Vice Chairperson, BRAC                  and                  Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health            

Title: A model for repeated binary outcomes and comparison with quasi-likelihood based approaches Speaker: Jahida Gulshan                 Associate Professor, ISRT

Title: Evolution of Reproductive Health in Bangladesh   Speaker: Dr. Halida Hanum Akhter                Faculty Member                Bloomberg School of Public Health                John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA Venue: ISRT seminar room            

The Indoor Games Tournament 2018 of ISRT started with an inauguration ceremony on Thursday, 19th of April 2018. This year Batch 21 (the current 4th year) is organizing the event. Badminton, table tennis, ludo, chess, dart throwing, indoor cricket are some of the many exciting games. Students, teachers and staffs are taking part in different events.

Title: Approximation of the Formal Bayesian Model Comparison using the Extended Conditional Predictive Ordinatecriterion Speaker: Md. Rashedul Hoque, Assistant Professor, ISRT   Venue and Time: ISRT seminar room, 2 pm Abstract: The optimal method for Bayesian model comparison is the formal Bayes factor (BF), according to decision theory. The formal BF is computationally troublesome for more complex models. If

Title: Modified Inferential Methods on Restricted Parameters in Multivariate Regression Analysis: Applications in Socio-demographic Research Speaker: Sheikh Mohammad Sayem                PhD Researcher, ISRT   Abstract: Multivariate regression analysis is getting increasing attention among the socio-demographers due to the complex nature of the interdependence of the response variables. This PhD research is to carry

Title of the Talk: Can We Train Machine Learning Methods to Outperform the High-dimensional Propensity Score Algorithm? Speaker: Dr. M. Ehsan Karim                Assistant Professor, SPPH, UBC                Scientist & Biostatistician, CHEOS, Canada Venue: ISRT Seminar room ---------------------------------------Abstract-------------------------------------------------------------------- The use of retrospective health care claims datasets