Dr. Mahbub Latif

Associate Professor

Room no. 205a

University of Dhaka
Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh

Telephone:	+880 9661900 x8293
Email:	mlatifisrt [dot] ac [dot] bd

Education

Research Interests

Design and analysis of experiments, survival analysis, multivariate discrete data analysis, statistical computing

Publications

(Selected)

“Relative bioavailability and pharmacokinetic properties of two different enteric formulations of Esomeprazole in healthy Bangladeshi male volunteers: an open-label, single-dose, randomized-sequence, two-way crossover study”, Clinical Therapeutics, 32(7), 1419-1426, 2010. [Journal Link] (with A. Ullah and others)
“Robustness considerations in selecting efficient two–color microarray designs”, Bioinformatics, 25(18), 2355-2361, 2009. [Journal Link] (with F. Bretz and E. Brunner)
“Model selection using modified Akaike's Information Criterion : an application to maternal morbidity data”, Austrian Journal of Statistics, 37(2), 175-184, 2008. [Journal Link] (with M.Z. Hossain and M.A. Islam)
“CD137 ligand reverse signaling has multiple functions in human dendritic cells during an adaptive immune response”. European Journal of Immunology, 38(4), 1024-1032, 2008. [Journal Link] (with U. Lippert, E. Brunner and others)
“Computations for the familial analysis of binary trait”, Computational Staistics, 20(3), 439-448, 2005. [Journal Link] (with H. Joe)

Software

RobustMAdesigns : R package to find good (efficient and robust) two-color microarray designs for one-factor and multi-factor microarray experiments. Details of the methods implemented in the package can be found from this Link. [currently the package is available only for Linux OS]
nparLD : R package to perform non-parametric analysis of longitudinal data in factorial experiments. (with K. Noguchi, E. Brunner and others)

Theses

“Efficiency and robustness issues in complex statistical designs for two-color microarray experiments”, PhD thesis, Department of Medical Statistics and Center for Statistics, University of Goettingen, Germany, 11/2005. Supervisor : Dr. Edgar Brunner. [fulltext]
“A comparison of methods for multivariate familial binary responses”, MSc thesis, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2001. Supervisor : Dr. Harry Joe. [fulltext]
“An extension of multistate hazards model for transitions and reverse transitions”, MSc thesis, Department of Statistics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1995. Supervisor: Dr. M. Ataharul Islam. [Paper from the thesis]

Talks

“Design and analysis of transform-both-sides nonlinear regression models”, Queen Mary, University of London, 1/2010
“Analysis of transform-both-sides nonlinear regression models”, Spring Research Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 5/2009
“Analysis of transform-both-sides Michaelis-Menten model”, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom, 1/2009
“Selection of good two-color microarray designs using genetic algorithms”, Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 8/2008
“Robustness considerations in selecting two-color efficient microarray designs”, Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 3/2006
“Robustness considerations in selecting good two-color microarray designs”, Biometric Conference of the German Region, Halle (Saale), Germany, 3/2005
“Comparison of methods for multivariate binary responses”, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 8/2001

Research Students

Bazlur Rashid (2006), “Frailty models for multivariate survival data : an application to child mortality data of Bangladesh”, M.S. thesis in Applied Statistics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. [Abstract]
Mohammad Ehsanul Karim (2007), “Comparisons of different frailty models : a simulation study”, M.S. thesis in Applied Statistics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. [Abstract]
M Tanvir Hasan (2008), “Analysis of complications in diabetes mellitus using competing risks models”, M.S. thesis in Applied Statistics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. [Abstract]
Sabria Jihan Khan (2008), “Multivariate ordered probit models for analysing the effect of fortified food on health status among under-five Bangladeshi children”, M.S. thesis in Applied Statistics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. [Abstract]
Shahriar Gofur (2008), “Models for interval censoring and inference for lifetime distributions : analysis of diabetic data”, M.S. thesis in Applied Statistics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. [Abstract]
Mina Mahbub Hossain (2008), “Regression models for count time series data”, M.S. thesis in Applied Statistics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.