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 Date/Time: Saturday, October 6, 2012, 1200 noon Venue: Computer Lab (2nd Floor)   ABSTRACT Increasingly large volumes of space-time data are collected everywhere by mobile computing

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 have measurement error Speaker: Shahjahan Khan, PhD University of Southern Queensland, Australia Date/Time: Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 2:00pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT It is

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. Wahed University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA, USA Date/Time: Monday, January 7, 2013, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT To be announced

Item Response Theory Modelling in Analysing Rating Scale Data January 8, 2013 - 8:55am Full Title: Item Response Theory Modelling in Analysing Rating Scale Data Speaker: Asaduzzaman Khan, PhD The University of Queensland and The University of New England, Australia Date/Time: Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Rating scales are increasingly

Arsenic variations in shallow groundwater January 15, 2013 - 8:01pm Full Title: Arsenic variations in shallow groundwater of Bangladesh explained by generalized regression modeling Speaker: M. Shamsudduha, PhD University College London, UK Date/Time: Monday, January 21, 2013, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT The impact of widespread groundwater-fed irrigation and increased recharge on arsenic (As)

Macroeconomic Determinants and Forecasting of Stock Market Capital January 31, 2013 - 5:51am Full Title: Macroeconomic Determinants and Forecasting of Stock Market Capital: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh Speaker: Md. Azim Uddin, MSc Bangladesh Bank and PhD Candidate in Applied Statistics Date/Time: Saturday, February 2, 2013, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT To diagnosis stock market

Higher-Order Asymptotic Approximations and Their Applications February 3, 2013 - 10:48am Full Title: Higher-Order Asymptotic Approximations and Their Applications Speaker: Hyung-Tae Ha, PhD Gachon University, South Korea Date/Time: Saturday, February 9, 2013, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT The main interest of my research is in distribution theory, which lies in the center of probability

Alternatives to Extreme Value February 16, 2013 - 10:25am Full Title: Alternatives to Extreme Value: Lévy Spectral Risk Measures applied to leading stock indices Speaker: Sharif Ullah Mozumdar, PhD Department of Mathematics, University Of Dhaka, Bangladesh Date/Time: Monday, February 25, 2013, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT We investigate Lévy spectral risk measures as coherent

Measures to assess the predictive ability of risk models for survival data March 20, 2013 - 12:08pm Full Title: A simulation study of measures to assess the predictive ability of risk models for survival data Speaker: M. Shafiqur Rahman, PhD University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Date/Time: Saturday, March 23, 2013, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT

Variable Selection with The Modified Buckley--James Method March 30, 2013 - 6:05pm Full Title: Variable Selection with The Modified Buckley--James Method and The Dantzig Selector for High--dimensional Survival Data Speaker: Hasinur Rahaman Khan, MSc University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Date/Time: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT We consider variable selection techniques for