PhD/MSc Alumni
2003
Thesis Title: Analyses of Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data in a Randomized Clinical Trial in the Presence of a Lag Time in the Stabilization of Treatment
Supervisor: Michael Schulzer
First Position: Statistician, HIV Trials Network, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
Current Position: Senior Instructor: Department of Statistics, UBC
Program: MSc
2002
Thesis Title: Imputation Methods for Missing Covariates in Nonlinear Mixed-effects Models, with Application in AIDS Studies
Supervisor: Lang Wu
First Position: Statistician, Dhaka Bank, Bangladesh
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Case Study: Inference for Spatial Random Rainfall Fields
Supervisor: James V. Zidek FRSC, O.C.
First Position: Ph.D. student, University of Washington
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Globally Robust Inference for Simple Linear Regression Models with Repeated Median Slope Estimator
Supervisor: Ruben H Zamar
First Position: Ph.D. student, UBC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Investigating a Variance-Components Approach for Linkage Analysis in Quantitative Traits
Supervisor: Harry Joe
First Position: Statistician, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation, Vancouver Hospital
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: On Continuous-Time Generalized AR(1) Processes: Models, Statistical Inference, and Applications to Non-normal Time Series
Supervisor: Harry Joe
First Position: Sessional lecturer, Faculty of Commerce, UBC
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University
Program: PhD
2001
Thesis Title: Survival Data Analysis of Patients with Neurofibromatosis (NF2)
Supervisor: Harry Joe
First Position: Statistician, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC
Current Position: Research assistant, Dept of Statistics, UBC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Bayesian Analysis of the Dynamic Hierarchical Model with Application to a Changepoint Problem
Supervisor: James V. Zidek FRSC, O.C.
First Position: Statistician, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Assessing Informative Drop-out in Models for Repeated Binary Data
Supervisor: John Petkau
First Position: Statistical Analyst, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: A Comparison of Methods for Multivariate Familial Binary Responses
Supervisor: Harry Joe
First Position: Ph.D. student Dept. of Statistics, UBC
Current Position: Assistant professor, Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
Program: MSc