seminar

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

Title:  The Impact of Food Insecurity on Health Status, Suicidal Ideation and Quality of Life Among Adults Living in Poverty: A Study in Urban Slums of Bangladesh   Abstract: Food insecurity is an ongoing public health issue in developing countries, including Bangladesh, exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It has considerable health impacts on the

An "ISRT Applied Statistics Seminar" on October 25 (Tuesday) at 2:00 PM (Venue: ISRT Seminar Room). Mrs. Tasnim Ara will talk on "Explaining geo-spatial variation in mobile phone ownership among rural women of Bangladesh: A multi-level and multidimensional approach". Mrs. Tasnim Ara is a lecturer at the Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT), University of Dhaka.

Dr. Mohaimen Mansur will give a talk on "Foundational Learning Skills of Children in Bangladesh: What We Learned from MICS".  Dr. Mansur is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT), University of Dhaka.

Title: Subgroup Analysis with Differential Treatment Effects and Biomarker Identification Abstract: In the process of drug development and regulatory decision making, it is important to characterize heterogeneity of subject response to

Speaker: Dr. Asim Kumer Dey, Brac University Venue: ISRT seminar room Date and time: 2 pm on Tuesday, 20 December 2022 Title: Anomaly Detection in Temporal Networks through Topological Features and Motifs with

The speaker will be Argho Sarkar, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland, USA. He will give a talk on "Deep Learning for Climate Change: Challenges, Progress, and Possibilities."  Besides presenting

Abstract: The exchangeability of units between treatment groups is a key and typically untestable assumption for evaluating causal intervention effects in observational studies. Standard methods assuming exchangeability can yield biased

Prof. Dr. Syed Abdul Hamid (https://ihe.ac.bd/faculty/syedabdulhamid), Health Institute, Dhaka University, will give a talk on "Health Statistics in Bangladesh" at ISRT on February 27, 2023, from 1.30-2.30 pm. He is

Speaker: Tanbin Rahman PhD, FDA, USA Title: Classification and Clustering for RNA-seq data with variable selection Abstract: Clustering and classification play an important role in identifying sub-types of complex diseases as well