Seminar on Some Ridge Regression Estimators January 26, 2009 - 5:19am Full Title: On Some Ridge Regression Estimators and Their Applications Speaker: B.M.G. Kibria, PhD Florida International University, Miami, USA Date/Time: Sunday, July 23, 2006, 12PM Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT The classical least squares procedures can produce estimate having a large mean square error

Seminar on Statistical Independence January 26, 2009 - 4:38am Full Title: Expository talk on Statistical Independence : An Insight Speaker: A.H. Joarder, PhD Date/Time: Tuesday, July 25, 2006, 12PM Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Statistical independence is explained in the context of a 2 x 2 contingency table. An inequality among events provides new insight

Seminar : Inference Using Ranked Set Sampling August 30, 2006 - 2:11am Full Title: Inference Using Ranked Set Sampling Speaker: Syed Shahadat Hossain, PhD Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Date/Time: Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 1200 Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT This talk attempts to address the difficulty of the statistical

Seminar : Introduction to STATA December 10, 2006 - 2:09am Full Title: Introduction to STATA Speaker: Mohammad Ehsanul Karim, BSc Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Date/Time: Sunday, December 10, 2006, 1100 Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Stata, created in 1985 by Statacorp, is a statistical software. Using the free resources,

Seminar : Survival Analysis for Comparing Adaptive Treatment Strategies December 18, 2006 - 2:07am Full Title: Survival Analysis for Comparing Adaptive Treatment Strategies Speaker: Abdus S Wahed, PhD University of Pittsburgh, USA Date/Time: Monday, December 18, 2006, 1100 Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Adaptive treatment strategy (ATS) refers to a sequence of treatments used to