Particulate Matter and Cardiovascular Mortality: How Risky is Breathing? April 5, 2012 - 4:55am Full Title: Particulate Matter and Cardiovascular Mortality: How Risky is Breathing? Speaker: Sorina Eftim, PhD George Washington University, USA Date/Time: Saturday, April 7, 2012, 3:00pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT The talk explores statistical methods in air pollution studies with examples

History of graphical representations of statistical data April 13, 2012 - 5:47am Full Title: History of graphical representations of statistical data Speaker: Olav Muurlink, PhD Griffith University, Australia Date/Time: Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 3:00pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT This paper briefly reviews the history of graphical representations of research findings, and suggests that the

An Introduction to Scientific Writing and Referencing May 9, 2012 - 9:22am Full Title: An Introduction to Scientific Writing and Referencing Speaker: Dorothy Southern, MPH Centre for Communicable Diseases, icddr,b, Dhaka Date/Time: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 11:00am Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Not available

Macroeconomic Determinants and Forecasting of Stock Market Capital May 15, 2012 - 2:47pm Full Title: Macroeconomic Determinants and Forecasting of Stock Market Capital: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh Speaker: Md. Azim Uddin Statistics Department, Bangladesh Bank, Dhaka, Bangladesh Date/Time: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 10:30am Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT To diagnosis stock market functioning the present

On the Correlation and Independence Between Sample Mean and Variance June 3, 2012 - 11:52am Full Title: On the Correlation and Independence Between Sample Mean and Variance Speaker: Anwar H Joarder, PhD Department of Mathematics and Statistics King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Date/Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 1200 noon Venue:

Modeling Healthcare Data Using Markov Decision Process June 22, 2012 - 6:26am Full Title: Modeling Healthcare Data Using Markov Decision Process Speaker: Kumer Pial Das, PhD Lamar University, Texas, USA Date/Time: Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 3:00pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT A Markov decision process (MDP) is a 4-tuple (a set of states, a set

Multi-class Multi-server Accumulating Priority Queue September 12, 2012 - 8:49pm Full Title: Multi-class Multi-server Accumulating Priority Queue Speaker: Azaz Bin Sharif, MSc University of Western Ontario, Canada Date/Time: Saturday, September 15, 2012, 12:00 noon Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT This talk presents an accumulated priority model for multi-server queues in which waiting customers accumulate priority

Some hierarchical models for space-time data October 4, 2012 - 6:25am Full Title: Some hierarchical models for space-time data Speaker: Shuvo Bakar, PhD ISRT, University of Dhaka and CSIRO, Australia

Estimation of slope of a regression model when both variables have measurement error December 7, 2012 - 10:11pm Full Title: Estimation of slope of a regression model when both variables

A Joint Modeling Approach for Multiple Ordinal Processes January 1, 2013 - 10:39am Full Title: A joint modeling approach for multiple ordinal processes via generalized estimating equations Speaker: Abdus S.