seminar

Importance of Statistics for Development December 6, 2009 - 1:49pm Full Title: Importance of Statistics for Development Speaker: Shahjahan Khan, PhD University of Southern Queensland, Australia Date/Time: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 12:00PM Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT This presentation focuses on various aspects of statistical sciences, particularly its increasingly diverse and wide range of applications

Treatment Regimes on Longitudinal Outcome Data December 17, 2009 - 2:00pm Full Title: Assessing the effect of treatment regimes on longitudinal outcome data Speaker: Abdus S. Wahed, PhD Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, USA Date/Time: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 11:30AM Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Depression studies frequently adopt two-stage designs to examine the

Statistical models for studies of health effects of air pollution December 16, 2009 - 1:06pm Full Title: Statistical models for studies of health effects of air pollution Speaker: Sati Mazumdar, PhD Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, USA Date/Time: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 12:00pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) with natural

Bayesian variable selection for parametric AFT models January 12, 2010 - 1:07pm Full Title: Bayesian variable selection for parametric accelerated failure time models in high dimensions Speaker: Md Hasinur Rahaman Khan, MSc Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom and Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Date/Time: Saturday, January 16,

Bayesian adjustment methods for measurement error/misclassification in covariates January 27, 2010 - 6:41pm Full Title: Bayesian Adjustment Methods for Measurement error/Misclassification in Covariates Speaker: Md. Shahadut Hossain, PhD Department of Statistics, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Date/Time: Sunday, January 31, 2010, 12:00PM Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT In most epidemiological investigations, the study units are

Capacity Planning of a Perinatal Network: A Loss Network Framework February 14, 2010 - 3:01pm Full Title: Capacity Planning of a Perinatal Network: A Loss Network Framework Speaker: Md Asaduzzaman Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and University of Westminster, United Kingdom Date/Time: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 3:00 pm Venue: ISRT Seminar

Modified weights based generalized quasilikelihood inferences March 4, 2010 - 12:08pm Full Title: Modified weights based generalized quasilikelihood inferences in incomplete longitudinal binary models Speaker: Taslim S. Mallick, PhD Department of Statistics, Biostatistics & Informatics University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Date/Time: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 3:00 pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT In an incomplete longitudinal

Generalized linear models with crossed nonparametric random effects July 25, 2010 - 4:55am Full Title: Generalized linear models with crossed nonparametric random effects Speaker: M Tariqul Hasan, PhD Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB, Canada Date/Time: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 1500 Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT In social, health and

Public Hurricane Loss Evaluation Models: Predicting Losses of Residential Structures in the State of Florida December 21, 2010 - 11:09pm Full Title: Public Hurricane Loss Evaluation Models: Predicting Losses of Residential Structures in the State of Florida Speaker: B. M. Golam Kibria, PhD Department of Mathematics and Statistics Florida International University Miami, FL 33199, USA

Mortality modeling of white spruce and black spruce December 21, 2010 - 11:13pm Full Title: Mortality modeling of white spruce and black spruce using combine estimators Speaker: Suborna Ahmed, MSc Department of Forest Resources Management University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada Date/Time: Thursday, December 23, 2010, 0930 Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Using combined