Modelling longitudinal change-point data June 25, 2013 - 11:58am Full Title: Modelling longitudinal change-point data Speaker: Shahedul Ahsan Khan, PhD University of Saskachewan, Canada Date/Time: Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 3pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Continuous changepoint data may exhibit one of two types of transitions: gradual or abrupt. Modeling the trend for such data

Analysis of Prostate Cancer Data April 7, 2014 - 7:01am Full Title: Analysis of Prostate Cancer Data at the Presence of Latent Factor: Estimation of the Treatment Effect Speaker: Afroza Polin, MSc Department of Statistics Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh Date/Time: Thursday, April 17, 2014, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT In medical and epidemiological research,

Female Local Government Members and Their Interactions April 22, 2014 - 9:50pm Full Title: Female Local Government Members and Their Interactions with Community Development Workers: Learning from an Experiment in Bangladesh Speaker: Atonu Rabbani PhD Department of Economics, University of Dhaka Date/Time: Sunday, April 27, 2014, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Community organizations and

Robustness Properties of Optimal Designs May 12, 2014 - 7:17pm Full Title: Robustness Properties of Optimal Designs with Standard and Compound Criteria Speaker: Md. Shaddam Hossain Bagmar MSc Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT) University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Date/Time: Thursday, May 15, 2014, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Experimental design is the process

A two-­step integrated approach June 1, 2014 - 8:01pm Full Title: A two-­step integrated approach to detect differentially expressed genes in RNA-­Seq data Speaker: Munni Begum, PhD Ball State University, USA Date/Time: Monday, June 30, 2014, 2:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT RNA‐Seq experiments produce millions of discrete sequence reads as a measure of gene

Gradients in Spatial Response Surfaces January 13, 2015 - 5:18pm Full Title: Gradients in Spatial Response Surfaces with Application to Land-Value Data Speaker: Anandamayee Majumdar, PhD Center for Advanced Statistics and Econometrics, Soochow University, China Date/Time: Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 3:00pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT For point-referenced spatial data, we often create explanatory models

An Introduction to Data Cloning Method January 24, 2015 - 5:23pm Full Title: An Introduction to Data Cloning Method Speaker: Mohammad Kaviul Anam Khan, MSc School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Canada Date/Time: Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT In the fields of epidemiology, ecology and medical science often we

Are Overweight Children More Likely to Underestimate February 2, 2015 - 8:01am Full Title: Are Overweight Children More Likely to Underestimate Their Weight Status: a Novel Approach to Quantify Weight

Financial Development and Armed Conflict February 16, 2015 - 9:00am Full Title: Financial Development and Armed Conflict: A Cross-country Analysis Speaker: Md Rashel Hasan, MSc Chief Economist's Unit, Bangladesh Bank Date/Time: Thursday, February 19, 2015, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT In this paper we have examined how armed conflict is associated with financial development

Systematic Literature Reviews and Meta-analyses March 4, 2015 - 9:05am Full Title: Systematic Literature Reviews and Meta-analyses Speaker: Olav Muurlink, PhD Central Queensland University, Australia Date/Time: Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT The literature review lies at the core of designing good studies. It enables the researcher to understand where the