ISRT student Md. Rasel Biswas from batch 22 of Applied Statistics received the ISRT Golden Jubilee Gold Medal Award on March 23, 2021 for attaining the highest CGPA in his B.S. honors examination. This award was first introduced based on the Golden Jubilee celebration fund created during ICAS 2014. The student(s) achieving the highest CGPA … [ Read More ]
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
21 MS students of ISRT received 2018-19 NST fellowship for MS thesis works
Twenty One MS students of ISRT of academic session 2019-20 have been awarded the “National Science and Technology (NST) Fellowship” for their MS Thesis works. The awardees are MD. RASEL BISWAS, SWARNA CHOWDHURY, EMAMA AMIN, MD. ABDUL BASIT, SAFWAN SHIHAB, SILVIA KHANAM, ARGHA DHAR, MD. SAIFUR RAHMAN MAZUMDER, SUBORNA SULTANA, AFSANA DIL AFROZE, SUDIPTA DATTA, TONOY SARKER, MONJURUL … [ Read More ]
ISRT with two co-organizers successfully organized an international symposium iADORE2020 during December 7-8, 2020
The Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT), jointly with the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Andalas University, Indonesia, successfully finished the International Symposium on Advanced Statistical Data Analysis and Operational Research 2020 (iADORE2020) during 7-8 December 2020 (https://science.utm.my/iadore2020). This was an international symposium that focussed on applications relating to areas of statistics and operation … [ Read More ]
Call for Papers for JSR Special Issue
The Journal of Statistical Research (JSR) invites manuscripts for a special issue to celebrate the 100-year founding anniversary of the University of Dhaka, 50th year of independence of Bangladesh. and JSR’s 50th year of publication. To memorialize these milestone anniversaries, the JSR will publish the special issue on the theme Statistics: Opportunities and New Challenges. … [ Read More ]
ISRT mourns the death of QMH Professor M. Ataharul Islam (1955-2020)
Dr. M. Ataharul Islam, QMH Professor of our institute has breathed his last on 6 December 2020 (Sunday) at 1:13 p.m., while undergoing treatment of Leukemia at Evercare Hospital Dhaka (Apollo Hospital). He was 66. Inna Lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji’un. Dr. M. Ataharul Islam served ISRT as QMH professor from 2017 to 2020. He has … [ Read More ]
Recent Faculty Publications (Selected)
Afiaz, A., Masud, M.S. and Mansur, M. (2021). Impact of child’s cognitive and social-emotional difficulties on child abuse: Does mother’s justification of intimate partner violence also play a role? Child Abuse & Neglect, Volume 17, DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105028.
Author: Dr Mohammad Shahed Masud | Year: 2021
Z.Z. Sultana, F.U. Hoque, J. Beyene, M.A. Islam, M.H.R. Khan, S. Ahmed, D.H. Hawlader and A. Hossain (January, 2021). HIV Infection and Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. BMC Infectious Diseases. 21:51. doi: 10.1186/s12879-020-05749-2.
Author: Dr. Md Hasinur Rahaman Khan | Year: 2021
M.H.R. Khan and A. Hossain (October, 2020). Machine Learning Approaches Reveal that Number of Tests does not Matter to Predict Global COVID-19 Confirmed Cases. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 3:561801. doi: 10.3389/frai.2020.561801.
Author: Dr. Md Hasinur Rahaman Khan | Year: 2020
M. Ali, G.U. Ahsan, R. Khan, M.H.R. Khan and A. Hossain (October, 2020). Immediate impact of stay-at-home orders to control COVID-19 transmission on mental well-being in Bangladeshi adult population: Patterns, Explanations, and future directions. BMC Research Notes, Volume 13, Article number 494.
Author: Dr. Md Hasinur Rahaman Khan | Year: 2020
M. M. Islam, F. Ababneh, T. Akter and M.H.R. Khan (January, 2020). Low birth weight in Jordan level, trends, risk factors and implications for under five mortality: A population based study. Eastern mediterranean Health Journal , WHO, 26(10): 1273-1284. doi:10.26719/emhj.20.096.
Author: Dr. Md Hasinur Rahaman Khan | Year: 2020
Adhikary, A and Rahman MS (2020). Firth’s penalized method in Cox proportional hazard framework for developing predictive models for sparse or heavily censored survival data. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00949655.2020.1817924
Author: Dr. M. Shafiqur Rahman | Year: 2020
M. S. Al-balushi, M. S. Ahmed, M. M. Islam and M.H.R. Khan (2020). Multilevel poisson regression modeling to identify factors influencing the number of children ever born to married women in Oman. Journal of Statistics & Management Systems, doi:10.1080/09720510.2019.1709328.
Author: Dr. Md Hasinur Rahaman Khan | Year: 2020
MB Hossain, SS Hossain (2020), Probabilistic estimation of seismic parameters for Bangladesh, Arabian Journal of Geosciences 13 (1), 262.
Author: Dr. Syed Shahadat Hossain | Year: 2020
S Mahmud, MA Islam, SS Hossain (2020). Analysis of Rainfall Occurrence in Consecutive Days Using Markov Models with Covariate Dependence in Selected Regions of Bangladesh, Theoretical and Applied Climatology.
Author: Dr. M. Ataharul Islam | Year: 2020
Dr. Syed Shahadat Hossain | Year: 2020Rafiqul I. Chowdhury and M. Ataharul Islam (2020). Regressive models for risk prediction of repeated multinomial outcomes: An illustration using Health and Retirement Study data. Biometrical Journal, 2020; 1-18, D OI: 10.1002/bmj.201800101
Author: Dr. M. Ataharul Islam | Year: 2020
