seminar

Title: "A brief introduction to Transcriptomic data analysis" Speaker: Dr. Tanbin Rahman, Postdoctoral Fellow at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA. Date & time: Monday, July 13, 2020 at 9.00AM ---------------------------------Summary------------------------------------------------------------- This presentation will briefly discuss the different types of transcriptomic datasets in the field of statistical genomics. At first, the structure of the datasets will

Title: "R Shiny app for the beginners" Speaker: Nabil Awan, Assistant Professor (on leave), ISRT, DU and PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Date & Time: Sunday, July 26, at 7.30PM   Suumary: R Shiny app is getting increasingly popular in both industry and academia. One reason is the automation that many companies are

Title "Opportunities and Challenges for Statisticians During Pandemics" The speaker: Abdus S. Wahed, Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Date & time: Saturday October 10, 2020 at 7.30 PM (Dhaka time).   ---------------------------Abstract----------------------------------------------------------------------- COVID 19 has dramatically changed the lifestyles of people around the globe. In the midst of pandemic, all of us are struggling

Title: Clinical Trials and application of Statistical Modeling and Machine Learning in Biomedical Data   Abstract: Clinical trials/research are conducted to examine the clinical questions of practicing physicians. It is important to design trials appropriately in advance.  A randomized, controlled trial is the ultimate design for treatment comparisons at the final confirmatory stage. The need and

Title: Improved Statistical Approach for Climate Projection over Bangladesh using Downscaling of Global Climate Model Outputs Speaker: Md. Bazlur Rashid Abstract: Bangladesh is facing from severe impacts of climate change because of its low-lying coastal areas, deforestation, and rapid human population growth, technological and industrial intervention. The climate change parameters namely, temperature, heavy rainfall, sea

Abstract: This question was asked many times in the past. I am sure all of you have pondered about it at some point in your academic life. In this talk, I will explain what it truly means to be an applied statistician. Spoiler alert: statistics is inherently applied from an industry perspective. We do not

A seminar will be held at 2:30 pm, Tuesday, 31 May. Further details are as follows:   Title: Analytics in Action Speaker: Syed Shakil Ahmed, Head of Segments, Business Intelligence, Commercial Division, Grameen Phone Ltd Venue: ISRT Seminar Room (#402).

There is a statistics seminar at 2:00 pm on Sunday, 31 July at ISRT. ISRT alumni member, Kaviul Anam Khan will talk with the title “A Generalized Variable Importance Metric to Identify Important Predictors from Black Box Machine Learning Methods”.   Biodata of Kaviul Anam Khan is:   Mohammad Kaviul Anam Khan, PhD (c), Rafal Kustra, PhD Biostatistics Division

Title: Constrained inference in mixed models for clustered data Abstract: Mixed models are commonly used for analyzing clustered data, including longitudinal data and repeated measurements. Unrestricted full maximum likelihood (ML) methods have been extensively studied in the literature for analyzing generalized, linear, and mixed models. However, constraints or parameter orderings may occur in practice, and

Title: “Identification of delayed transfer of care (DTOC) patients at the time of admission and prediction of their length of stay in NHS hospitals” Summary: Delayed transfer of care (DTOC), also known as bed-blocking has been a persistent challenge for NHS hospitals. It occurs when a patient is clinically ready to be discharged, however, the