Education

BSc, MSc (Dhaka), PhD (Deakin) in Statistics

Research Interests

Experimental Design, Sampling Methods, Inference

Publications

• Shaila Sharmin and Khan A. (2015) Forecasting the Production of Natural Gas and Its Impact on Electricity and GDP in Bangladesh, International Journal of Energy, Environment, and Economics, 23 (2).
• Khan A and Hossain, S. S. (2010) Many Sample Location Test With Quantile-Function Error Distributions: An Almost Robust Test, Journal of Statistics and Application, 5 (2), 139-160.
• Homayara, F., Hossain, S. S. and Khan A. (2009) Sensitivity Analysis of Structural Equation Model with Non-normal Observed Variable, Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics, 12 (4), 499-513.
• Borhan, A. S. M. and Khan A. (2009) Sensitivity to Non-normality of one-sample t-test, Wilcoxon test and z-test, Dhaka University Journal of Science, 57 (1), 61-66.
• Khan, A.  (2008)  A combination of adaptive and line intercept sampling applicable in agricultural and environmental studies, Journal of Statistics, 15, 44-53.
• Hossain, S. S.  and Khan A.  (2008) Sensitivity of Ranked Set Sampling to the Shape Characteristics of the Underlying Population: A g-and-k Distribution Approach, Pakistan Journal of Statistics, 24 (3), 207-216.
• Borhan, A. S. M., Hossain S. S. and Khan A. (2006) A numerical Likelihood ratio test (NLRT) for one sample location in symmetric non-normal situations, Dhaka University Journal of Science, 55 (2), 225-229.
• Hossain, S. S.  and Khan A.  (2006) Test procedures with selected ranked set sampling, Statistica, 46 (2), 161-170.
• Hossain, S. S. and Khan. A.  (2004)  Hypothesis tests on the scale parameter using median ranked set sampling, Dhaka University Journal of Science, 52, 271-279.
• Hossain, S. S., Khan, A. and B. Zainab.   (2003) Tests of Hypotheses Using Median Ranked Set Sampling Data from the Normal Population, Journal of Statistical Studies, 23, 1-9.
• Khan A. and Rayner G. D.  (2003)  Robustness to non-normality of common tests for the many sample Location problem, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, 7 (4), 187-206.
• Khan A. and Muttlak H. A.  (2002) Adjusted two-stage adaptive cluster sampling, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 126, 83-95.
• Khan, A. and Hossain, S. S.  (2002)  Repeated Application of Ranked Set Sampling,  Journal of Statistical Studies, 22, 41-45.
• Khan A. and Muttlak H. A.  (2000)  Adjusted two-stage adaptive cluster sampling with ranked set sampling, Bangladesh Journal of Scientific Research, 18, 311-323.
• Khan A.  (1999)  et. al.,  Adaptive cluster sampling for characteristics other than total number of elements, Parisankhyan Samikkha, 6, 19-32.
• Hossain, S. S. and Khan, A.  (1995) A Monte-Carlo study on REML estimators of variance components of one-way heteroscedastic crossed random models, Bangladesh Journal of Scientific Research, 13, 21-30.
• Hossain, S. S. and Khan, A.  (1994) Maximum likelihood estimations of variance components of heteroscedastic random ANOVA model, Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 23, 2449-2467.

Research Supervision

• Suborna Shekhor Ahmed, Comparative study on the test of normality: Conventional tests and numerical likelihood ratio test, M.S. thesis, Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaha, 2007.
• Muhammad Miaraz Hossen Gazi, Modified estimation methods for adaptive cluster sampling with selected order statistics, M.S. thesis, Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaha, 2007.
• Mohammad Mamunur Rahman, On methods of identifying out-of-control variables and their effect on locations as well as on scale for subgroup data in multivariate statistical process control, M.S. thesis, Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaha, 2006.
• Fahmida Humayra, Fitting structural equation model with symmetric nonnormal error: A parametric test, M.S. thesis, Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaha, 2006.
• A. S. M. Borhan , One sample test of location for symmetrical non-normal data, M.S. thesis, Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaha, 2005.
• Tahmina Begum, Smoothing the detection function using moving average estimation of density and detectability index, M.Sc. thesis, Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaha, 2004.

 Theses

• Khan, A. Many-sample location and scale tests with quantile-function error distributions, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, School of Computing and Mathematics, Deakin University, Australia, 2003.
• Khan, A. Some Aspects of Adaptive Cluster Sampling, unpublished M. Sc. thesis, School of Computing and Mathematics, Deakin University, Australia, 1998.

Scholarships

• January 1996, Received Deakin University Post Graduate Research Scholarship for conducting M.Sc.  research (duration 2 years).
• March 2001, Received Deakin University Post Graduate Research Scholarship for conducting Ph.D. research  (duration 3 years).
• Sep 1990, Received the Q.M. Husain award for being placed in the First Class First Position in The M.Sc. Examination.
• Sep 1989,  Received the Q.M. Husain award for being placed in the First Class Second Position in The B.Sc. (Honours) Examination.

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Life member Bangladesh Statistical Association
• Life member Bangladesh Association of the advancement of Sciences