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

Unsupervised Feature Learning with Probabilistic Models April 22, 2013 - 9:41pm Full Title: Unsupervised Feature Learning with Probabilistic Models Speaker: Md. Faijul Amin, DEng Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh Date/Time: Saturday, April 27, 2013, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Building intelligent system that can emulate human reasoning process has been an ultimate

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

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

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

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,

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