ISRT faculty members Dr. M. Shafiqur Rahman, Dr. M. Hasinur Rahaman Khan, Mohammad Samsul Alam and Nabil Awan have attended the 36th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB36) held at Utrecht, Netherlands from 23 to 27 August, 2015. The conference was held on the campus of Utrecht University “De Uithof”.

It’s a great pleasure for ISRT that Dr. M. Shafiqur Rahman and Dr. M. Hasinur Rahaman Khan won the Conference Awards for Scientists for their papers: “An alternative C-statistic for evaluating the added predictive ability of important risk factors and markers in the logistic regression models” and “Stability Selection for Lasso, Ridge and Elastic Net Implemented with AFT Models” respectively.

Among the junior faculty members Mohammad Samsul Alam and Nabil Awan won Conference Awards for Developing Countries (CADC) for their papers: “Misspecification Effect in Bootstrap Variance Estimation for Estimators of the Population Mean” and “Efficient Estimation in Two-stage Randomized Clinical Trials Using Ranked Set Sampling” respectively.

Md. Anower Hossain (faculty member of ISRT on leave) attended the conference from UK to present his poster on “Missing continuous outcomes under covariate dependent missingness in cluster randomised trials”.

Link to the ISCB conference newsletter:http://www.iscb.info/files/folders/newsletter/iscbnl59.pdf

ISRT congratulates them for their success at ISCB conference!