Seminar : Prevention of Child Injury January 25, 2009 - 8:29am Full Title: PRECISE - Prevention of Child Injury through Social-intervention and Education Speaker: A.K.M. Fazlur Rahman, PhD Date/Time: Friday, October 24, 2008, 12PM Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Thirty thousand children a year die from preventable injuries, including serious cuts and burns, drowning, road

Seminar : Assessing Poverty, Risk and Vulnerability January 24, 2009 - 11:32pm Full Title: Assessing Poverty, Risk and Vulnerability: A study on Flooded Households in Rural Bangladesh Speaker: M. Israt Rayhan, PhD Institute of Statistical Research and Training University of Dhaka, Dhaka Bangladesh Date/Time: Monday, November 10, 2008, 12PM Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Flood

Risk of Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis April 19, 2009 - 2:23pm Full Title: Risk of Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Speaker: M. Mushfiqur Rahman, MSc University of British Columbia, Canada   Date/Time: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 12:00PM Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT A recent study based on the General Practice

Control of Queues by Laplace Transform May 19, 2009 - 7:22pm Full Title: Control of Queues by Laplace Transform Speaker: Rifat Ara Jahan, MSc University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada Date/Time: Saturday, May 23, 2009, 11:00 AM Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT In this paper we apply Laplace Transform approach to control queue. We first present

Interplay between Statistics and Cryptology June 30, 2009 - 1:17pm Full Title: Interplay between Statistics and Cryptology Speaker: Bimal K. Roy, PhD Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India Date/Time: Saturday, July 4, 2009, 11:00AM Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT When confidential or secret information are communicated through open channel, the sender “encrypts”

Wavelet-based noise reduction of cDNA microarray images November 15, 2009 - 1:20pm Full Title: Wavelet-based noise reduction of cDNA microarray images Speaker: Tamanna Howlader, PhD Institute of Statistical Research and Training University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Date/Time: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 12:00PM Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Removal of noise is an essential step in the

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,

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

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,